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1963 – At Florence State College – First African – American student admitted to Florence State College – Wendell Wilkie Gunn. 1963 – Forest Hills Elementary School – Forest Hill Elementary School opens on Stovall Drive in Florence.
Nov 5, 2009 · 1968 The Douglass College Black Students’ Congress is founded as the first African American women’s organization at Rutgers. 1968 The University of Mississippi Black Student Union is founded. That same year Robert Walker becomes the first Black teaching assistant at Ole Miss, as well as the first Black student to receive a master’s degree from the University (history).
Virginia Proctor Powell Florence (October 1, 1897 – April 3, 1991) was a trailblazer in both African-American history and the history of librarianship. In 1923 she became the first black woman in the United States to earn a degree in library science. [ 1 ]
African-Americans at the University of Wisconsin (1875-1969) By Harvey D. Long (iSchool) for the UW-Madison Archives. William Smith Noland graduated in 1875 as “a basically prepared student in the Classical department of the University of Wisconsin.” Noland is the first known African-American to enter and graduate with a B.A.
1929 – Florence State Teachers College – State Normal School changes its name to Florence State Teachers College. 1930 – Southern Library – Soon after the completion of Bob Graves Hall, the administration building for the University of North Alabama , the Southern Library moved into a room located on the second floor of the building at the invitation of President Henry J. Willingham.
Apr 29, 2020 · New Kent County, VA (1968). By that time, Madison College had admitted just a few black students. Although Dr. Johnson is Madison’s first African American graduate, preliminary research suggests there were possibly two individuals who attended before her but kept their racial identity concealed.
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Oct 14, 2009 · The war’s first African American hero emerged from the attack on Pearl Harbor, when Dorie Miller, a young Navy steward on the U.S.S. West Virginia, carried wounded crew members to safety and ...
