Browse Items (15 total)

This editorial from the Flat Hat (William & Mary student run newspaper) prompted the temporary suspension of the paper from publication, according to a 1985 publication called The Black Presence at William and Mary. Editor-in-chief Marilyn Kaemmerle…

Student, faculty, and administrative representatives from Virginia colleges will join forces with civil rights officers to regulate and evaluate Governor Linwood Holton’s statewide desegregation plan before its release in December
The committee…

Lincoln’s Job Half-Done…
When Lincoln freed the slaves, he undoubtedly hoped the Negroes would someday be accepted as equals by the other colors of people in this country. Today we find the Negroes released from formal bondage, but not…

Students interviewed the first African American women to reside on campus.

Branch Out 2018

The Legacy 3 stood outside the dorm building in which they had once resided, Jefferson Hall.

The Legacy 3 in front of Jefferson Hall, their residence for their first three years on campus. We interviewed the women about their experiences related to residential life and study spaces.

This is a letter authored by Garland Gray, a Virginia State Senator from the mid-20th century, and loyalist to the “Byrd political machine” that was crucial to the preservation of segregation throughout the state. He writes this on behalf of the…