query: first african american student at university of mississippi

pos: James Meredith James Meredith James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an African-American Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran. In 1962, he became the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi, after the intervention of the federal government, an event that was a flashpoint in the Civil Rights Movement. Inspired by President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, Meredith decided to exercise his constitutional rights and apply to the University of Mississippi. His goal was to put pressure on the Kennedy administration to enforce civil rights for African Americans. In 1966 Meredith planned a

neg: Germany Kent Hall of Fame, becoming the first person in the school's history to receive the honor. After graduating from North Panola High School, Kent entered Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia, Mississippi where she majored in Journalism and Public Relations. While at Northwest, Kent was voted a Homecoming Maid and became the first African-American to be elected President of the freshman student Senate. She subsequently transferred to Mississippi State University where she earned a bachelor's degree. While at MSU, Kent become the first African-American woman to be voted to the Student Association, serving as the Attorney General. Kent was inducted into

neg: James Silver James Silver James W. Silver (June 28, 1907 – July 25, 1988) was a historian, author of "Mississippi: The Closed Society", and professor at the University of Mississippi and later at the University of Notre Dame and the University of South Florida. When rioting erupted on the Ole Miss campus after James Meredith became the University of Mississippi's first African-American student and federal troops moved in to keep order, Silver befriended Meredith. In a speech to the Southern Historical Association in the Fall of 1963, he analyzed the violence with which Mississippi was resisting desegregation. Mississippi was, he said, "a

neg: Toni Seawright Toni Seawright Toni Deniece Seawright (born June 25, 1964) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. In 1987, Seawright made history as the first African American to become Miss Mississippi and was the fourth runner-up in 1988’s Miss America pageant. Seawright was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi. She attended Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Mississippi, where she was the first African American to earn a degree in music at Mississippi University for Women, and majored in Vocal Music and Business at that university. Toni became the first African American to hold a recital in vocal music at MUW as well. She

neg: University of Southern Mississippi Life, Residence Halls, Community Service, and Science and Technology. The largest organizations based on student membership include the: Student Government Association, African-American Student Organization, Southern Miss Activities Council, The Legacy Student Alumni Association, and Baptist Student Union. The university has 26 Greek organizations on campus, including 14 fraternities and 12 sororities. There are 19 fraternity and sorority houses. The University of Southern Mississippi has 13 residence halls, and about 5,000 students live on campus throughout the school year. Residence halls: Closed residence halls: Special housing: Repurposed Residence Halls: The University of Southern Mississippi is one of the few universities to

neg: Sons of Mississippi in the photo, are situated from left to right as follows: The Moore photograph also shows the back of a state trooper's head, close to the camera on the left, and it appears blurry and large. Sons of Mississippi Sons of Mississippi is a book by Paul Hendrickson about sheriffs in Mississippi. The book's starting point is a photograph by Charles Moore of seven sheriffs assembled in Oxford, Mississippi. The photo was taken three days before James Meredith would enroll at University of Mississippi as its first African-American student; the sheriffs had come from different places in Mississippi to protest

neg: Sons of Mississippi Sons of Mississippi Sons of Mississippi is a book by Paul Hendrickson about sheriffs in Mississippi. The book's starting point is a photograph by Charles Moore of seven sheriffs assembled in Oxford, Mississippi. The photo was taken three days before James Meredith would enroll at University of Mississippi as its first African-American student; the sheriffs had come from different places in Mississippi to protest the enrollment. It was published in Life magazine in 1962 headlined "Local Lawmen, Getting Ready to Block the Law". Most of the sheriffs assembled had left Oxford by the time violence broke out on September 29–30.

neg: Doris Derby College on African art and culture. Derby left Mississippi in 1972 and focused on African and African-American Studies, for which she earned an M.A., as well as a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Illinois. She also worked in the University System of Wisconsin for ten years. In 1990, she joined the University System of Georgia at Georgia State University (G.S.U.) as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Founding Director of the Office of African-American Student Services and Programs (O.A.A.S.S.P.). Her department's achievements included the retention and graduation of a vast number of African-American students, as

neg: University of Southern Mississippi honor of Clyde Kennard, in front of Kennard Washington Hall, named after him and the first African-American doctoral student to graduate from USM, Walter Washington. Shortly thereafter, at the spring commencement ceremonies in May 2018, Clyde Kennard was posthumously awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters "honoris causa" from USM. A student in Kennard's Sunday School class at Mary Magdalene Baptist Church in Eatonville, Mississippi, accepted the honor on his behalf. Between 1955 and 1965, USM along with its President, William D. McCain, infringed upon the civil rights of Gay and Lesbian students. Gay and Lesbian students, with an emphasis on

neg: Carla Cotwright-Williams studies at the University of Mississippi, where she became president of the Graduate Student Council and earned a second master's degree there along the way in 2004. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Mississippi in 2006. Her dissertation concerned matroid theory; it was "Clones and Minors in Matroids", with T. James Reid as her doctoral advisor. She was the second African-American woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the university, and was part of a group of four African-Americans who all graduated in the same year. After completing her doctorate, Cotwright-Williams worked as a tenure-track faculty member

neg: James Meredith force, it ordered the nationalized Mississippi National Guard and federal troops to the campus. In the violent clashes which followed, two men were killed by gunshot wounds, and the white mob burned cars, pelted federal marshals with rocks, bricks and small arms fire, and damaged university property. The next day on October 1, 1962, after troops took control, Meredith became the first African-American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Meredith's admission is regarded as a pivotal moment in the history of civil rights in the United States. He persisted through harassment and extreme isolation to graduate on August

neg: Lynching in the United States regrets of the Senate to the descendants of victims of lynching, the ancestors of whom were deprived of life, human dignity and the constitutional protections accorded all citizens of the United States". In February 2014 a noose was placed on the statue of James Meredith, the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi. A number of nooses appeared in 2017, primarily in or near Washington, D.C. In May 2017, Mississippi state representative Karl Oliver of Winona stated that Louisiana lawmakers who supported the removal of Confederate monuments from their state should be lynched. Oliver's district includes Money, Mississippi, where

neg: University of Mississippi Medical Center against UMMC. Robert Q. Marston, MD, then medical dean and Medical Center director, developed a compliance strategy which included hiring the first black faculty member, and integrating the hospitals and clinics. At about the same time, Dr. Blair E. Batson, chair of the Department of Pediatrics at UMMC, offered a position in the department's residency education program to Dr. Aaron Shirley, an African-American physician who had attended medical school in Tennessee. Shirley became the first African-American learner at UMMC when he entered the residency program in 1965. University of Mississippi Medical Center University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) is the

neg: Nic Lott Nic Lott Nicholas A. Lott, known as Nic Lott (born May 8, 1979 in Taylorsville, Mississippi), is the first member of his race to have been elected student body president at the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Lott defeated five other candidates in the race at an institution once characterized by its strong support of segregation. Lott previously worked under former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (no relation), and U.S. Representative J.C. Watts of Oklahoma's 4th congressional district, an African-American who left Congress in 2003. He has interned in The White House in 2001 under U.S. President George W. Bush.

neg: Ole Miss riot of 1962 execution-style killings. Finally, on October 1, 1962, Meredith became the first African-American student to be enrolled at the University of Mississippi, and attended his first class, in American History. Meredith graduated from the university on August 18, 1963 with a degree in political science. At that time, there were still hundreds of troops guarding him 24 hours a day although, in order to appease the local sensitivities, 4,000 Black soldiers were removed from the Federal troops under Robert Kennedy's secret orders. Governor Barnett was fined $10,000 and sentenced to jail for contempt. The charges were later dismissed by the 5th

neg: William Grant Still William Grant Still William Grant Still (May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978) was an American composer of more than 150 works, including five symphonies and eight operas. Often referred to as "the Dean" of African-American composers, Still was the first African-American composer to have an opera produced by the New York City Opera. Still is known most for his first symphony, the "Afro-American", which was until the 1950s the most widely performed symphony composed by an American. Born in Mississippi, he grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, attended Wilberforce University and Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and was a student

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neg: Free Southern Theater civil rights and joined a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group in the Bronx. As a student at Hunter College in New York, Derby was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The department of African American studies at Mississippi State University observes that the SNCC “organized voter registration drives, self help economic and educational initiatives and carried out protests at such places as segregated local, statewide and national governmental facilities, public movie theaters, parks, medical facilities and churches”. Derby’s work within the SNCC was centered, primarily, in New York, Georgia, and Mississippi.

neg: James J. P. McShane James J. P. McShane James Joseph Patrick McShane (March 17, 1909 - December 23, 1968) was the former chief United States Marshal during part of the Civil Rights Movement. He was born in 1909 in New York City. As head of the Executive Office for U.S. Marshals, he supervised federal agents during the Freedom Rides of 1961, but is most known for his role in leading the federal agents who escorted James Meredith, the first African American student at University of Mississippi in 1962. In November of 1962 McShane was indicted by a Lafayette County Mississippi grand jury on charges

neg: University of Southern Mississippi male homosexuals, were targeted and expelled. McCain's intentions were to purge the campus of all sexual impurities. In 1969, the Afro-American Cultural Society (AACS) was founded. Alvin Williams, an early member of the organization and professor emeritus of media at the university, described AACS as an "instrumental part of student life for black students" attending the university in the late 1960s. The organization was later renamed as the African American Student Organization (AASO) in the 1990s. The transition of the 1960s to the 1970s gave way to a surge of social activism and major changes within the university. In response

neg: Doris Derby Doris Derby Doris Derby is an activist, documentary photographer and retired adjunct associate professor of anthropology at Georgia State University. She was active in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, and her work discusses the themes of race and African American identity. She was a working member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (S.N.C.C.), as well as co-founder of the Free Southern Theater, and the founding director of the Office of African-American Student Services and Programs (O.A.A.S.S.P.). Her photography has been exhibited throughout the United States. Two of her photographs were published in "Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by

neg: Unita Blackwell Unita Blackwell Unita Zelma Blackwell (born March 18, 1933) is an American civil rights activist who was the first African American woman, and the tenth African American, to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Blackwell was a project director for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and helped organize voter drives for African Americans across Mississippi. She is also a founder of the US China Peoples Friendship Association, a group dedicated to promoting cultural exchange between the United States and China. "Barefootin", Blackwell's autobiography, published in 2006, charts her activism. Unita Blackwell was born on March 18,

neg: Student African American Brotherhood survival and self-sufficiency. By mobilizing and developing human capital through our student participants, SAAB hopes to infuse our society with a culture of young men that will make a national impact and empower all people through appropriate mentoring and role modeling despite social disparities, to achieve an education and in turn play an active role in bettering the lives of others. Dr. Tyrone Bledsoe resides in Toledo, Ohio. He was born and raised in Grenada, Mississippi. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree and Master’s of Education degree from Mississippi State University. He earned his Ph.D in Counseling and Student

neg: David W. Johnson (scholar) helped plan and conduct the training program for the Mississippi Freedom Summer sponsored by the Mississippi Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). From 1963 to 1965, Johnson taught African American history at Freedom Schools in New York City, sponsored by the Harlem Parents Committee, and conducted two studies on the impact of learning Black history on African American children. At the same time, he worked with the Northern Student Movement, among other things organizing rent strikes in Harlem. He trained group leaders in the use of guided group interaction for juvenile delinquents in the Essex Fields Program in New Jersey. In

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neg: WMSV WMSV WMSV FM 91.1 is a radio station in Starkville, Mississippi located on the campus of Mississippi State University. Prior to WMSV, Mississippi State had a student-run radio station, WMSB, which went off the air permanently at the end of the spring semester of 1986. WMSB was a low-power FM station with studios on the top floor of Lee Hall. Marketed as "The Radio," the station's 10-watt, FM signal barely extended past the boundaries of the campus. The station's album oriented rock (AOR) format was augmented with an hourly ten-to-fifteen minute jazz block. Additionally, weekend formatting was African-American oriented beginning

neg: Louis Westerfield a year later became assistant professor of law and director of the law clinic at Southern University Law Center. Westerfield joined Loyola's law faculty in 1978 and went to the University of Mississippi as its first tenured black law professor in 1983. He became dean of the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1994. On August 24, 1996, Westerfield died unexpectedly due to a massive heart attack. Louis Westerfield Louis Westerfield (born 1949 in DeKalb, Mississippi – August 24, 1996) was a lawyer, law professor, and the first African-American Dean of the University of Mississippi School of Law. Westerfield

neg: University of Mississippi included an oral history of Ole Miss, various symposiums, the April unveiling of a $130,000 memorial, and a reunion of federal marshals who had served at the campus. In September 2003, the university completed the year's events with an international conference on race. By that year, 13% of the student body identified as African American. Meredith's son Joseph graduated as the top doctoral student at the School of Business Administration. Six years later, in 2008, the site of the riots, known as Lyceum-The Circle Historic District, was designated as a National Historic Landmark. The district includes: Additionally, on April 14,

neg: Robert F. Kennedy improve race relations, Kennedy held a private meeting in New York City in May 1963 with a black delegation coordinated by prominent author James Baldwin. In September 1962, Kennedy sent U.S. marshals to Oxford, Mississippi, to enforce a federal court order allowing the admittance of the first African-American student, James Meredith, to the University of Mississippi. The attorney general had hoped that legal means, along with the escort of U.S. marshals, would be enough to force Governor Ross Barnett to allow Meredith's admission. He also was very concerned there might be a "mini-civil war" between U.S. Army troops and armed

neg: Lemuel Roscoe Cleveland Lemuel Roscoe Cleveland Lemuel Roscoe Cleveland (14 November 1892, Newton County, Mississippi – 12 February 1969) was an American zoologist and protistologist, famous for giving the first, strong empirical proof for the existence of a symbiotic relationship between internal microorganisms and their metazoan host. Cleveland received in 1917 his B.S. from the University of Mississippi, where he spent one year as a graduate student and instructor. After a brief period of military service, he taught for two years at Emory University and then for one year at Kansas State College. He then became a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University,

neg: Mississippi Court of Appeals public schools of the Mississippi Delta for four years before going to law school. In 1974, he graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Law. In 1975, he became the first African-American attorney to clerk for the Mississippi Supreme Court when he was hired as a law clerk to the late Chief Justice Robert G. Gillespie. In 1976, he served as an Earl Warren Fellow intern with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in New York, New York. In 1978, he became the first African-American to serve as an assistant United States Attorney in Mississippi since reconstruction when

neg: Raylawni Branch system, the University of Southern Mississippi. The NAACP offered to pay her tuition but not living expenses – a factor which led to her decision to withdraw after the first year. On September 6, 1965, she (then Raylawni Young) and eighteen-year-old Hattiesburg native Elaine Armstrong became the first African American students at Mississippi Southern. By the fall of 1965 both Ole Miss and Mississippi State University had been integrated – the former violently, the latter peacefully. University of Southern Mississippi leaders, such as President William David McCain, had come to realize that the battle to maintain segregation was lost. Therefore,

neg: Aaron Shirley Aaron Shirley Aaron Shirley (January 3, 1933 – November 26, 2014) was an American physician and civil rights activist. Shirley was born in Gluckstadt, Mississippi. He was Chairman of the Board for the Jackson Medical Mall Foundation, and an associate professor in pediatrics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He was a graduate of Tougaloo College and Meharry Medical College. Dr. Blair E. Batson, chair of the Department of Pediatrics at University of Mississippi Medical Center, offered him a position in the department’s residency education program. Shirley became the first African-American learner at UMMC when he entered the residency

neg: Paul Williams (architect) Atelier, subsequently working as a landscape architect. He went on to attend the University of Southern California, designing several residential buildings while still a student there. Williams became a certified architect in 1921, and the first certified African-American architect west of the Mississippi. He married Della Mae Givens on June 27, 1917, at the First AME Church in Los Angeles. They had three children: Paul Revere Williams, Jr. (born and died June 30, 1925, buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles); Marilyn Frances Williams (born December 25, 1926); and Norma Lucille Williams (born September 18, 1928). Williams won an architectural competition

neg: The Daily Mississippian DMs web site, theDMonline.com "' began offering daily updates in 1996. In 1962 the University of Mississippi was the focal point of a major civil rights showdown between the government of the state of Mississippi, led by segregationist governor Ross Barnett, and the administration of President John F. Kennedy. At issue was the enrollment of an African-American student, James Meredith. As rioting engulfed the campus, a special edition of "The Daily Mississippian" carried an editorial from editor Sidna Brower. Brower urged students to return to their homes and not to involve themselves in the violence, which Brower said was a

neg: University of Mississippi Recruitment is fiercely competitive and potential sorority members are encouraged to secure personal recommendations from Ole Miss sorority alumnae to increase the chances of receiving an invitation to join one of the eleven NPC sororities on campus. Fraternity recruitment is also fierce, with only 14 active IFC chapters on campus. The Associated Student Body (ASB) is the Ole Miss student government organization. The student body, excluding the Medical Center, includes 18,121 undergraduates, 2,089 graduate students, 357 law students and 323 students in the Doctor of Pharmacy program. African-Americans comprise 12.8 percent of the student body. University of Mississippi The University

neg: Raylawni Branch Hattiesburg, and was the first African American ever hired at the local Big Yank clothing factory. She also became the first African American ever offered a position as a switchboard operator at the local telephone company. In the NAACP she knew well people such as Aaron Henry, Charles Evers, and Medgar Evers. The night Medgar Evers was assassinated, June 12, 1963, she went to Jackson and sat with the widow Myrlie Evers-Williams. In 1965, at age twenty-four, Branch was Secretary of the Forrest County, Mississippi NAACP when it recruited her to integrate the last major holdout of the Mississippi university

neg: Dean W. Colvard should not have been made, for fear of jeopardizing the southern way of life. Perhaps the harshest statement was made by a student of the university, who said, "... Bobby Kennedy may award you a medal of honor for the betrayal of State University and the people of Mississippi." In their first post-season appearance following Colvard's decision, MSU played against Loyola University Chicago, which had four African-American players. They ended up losing 61-51 to the eventual NCAA champions. These events were later chronicled in the DVD One Night in March produced by Starkville, MS-based Broadcast Media Group, Inc. In a

neg: Philip G. Hubbard University of Iowa. As a memorial to him, the field next to the Student Union on the University of Iowa campus was renamed Hubbard Park on December 6, 1991. In June 1999, he published the book: "My Iowa Journey: The Life Story of the University of Iowa's First Tenured African American Professor". Hubbard died on January 10, 2002, at the age of 80. Philip G. Hubbard Philip Gamaliel Hubbard, (March 4, 1921 - January 10, 2002) was a university professor and administrator who was the first African-American faculty member at the University of Iowa, the first African-American administrator at any

neg: James W.C. Pennington James W.C. Pennington James William Charles Pennington (c. 1807 – October 22, 1870) was an African-American orator, minister, writer, and abolitionist active in Brooklyn, New York. He escaped at the age of 19 from slavery in western Maryland and reached New York. After working in Brooklyn and gaining some education, he was admitted to Yale University as its first black student. He completed studies and was ordained as a minister in the Congregational Church, later also serving in Presbyterian churches for congregations in Hartford, Connecticut; and New York. After the Civil War, he served congregations in Natchez, Mississippi; Portland, Maine;

neg: Alvin Francis Poussaint in Mississippi for 2 years before going to Tufts University Medical program where he was the faculty director of psychiatry. In 1969, he left Tufts and began his long time journey at Harvard Medical School. He was the associate dean of student affairs. At Harvard he felt a great passion for the affirmative action program and through that he helped 16 African- American student succeed at Harvard. All while working at Harvard, Poussaint never let his passion for the Civil Rights Movement fade. He became close friends with Jesse Jackson. He was even the co-chairman for Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign.

neg: Frances Lucas The University of Southern Mississippi. Lucas grew up in Mississippi where she received her Bachelor's from Mississippi State University in 1978, her Master's and her PhD in higher education from the University of Alabama. Lucas began her career at Mississippi State working in student affairs before moving on at age 29 to become the youngest Vice-President for Student Affairs and the first female Vice-President at Baldwin-Wallace College. Later, she served as Senior Vice-President for Campus Life at Emory University before being announced in February 2000 as the 10th president and first female president of Millsaps College. After 22 years of

neg: Silas Herbert Hunt Jr., in 1953. Universities in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, and Mississippi put off integration until the 1960s. Silas Herbert Hunt Silas Herbert Hunt (March 1, 1922 – April 22, 1949) was a U.S. veteran of World War II who became the first African American student to enroll in a white Southern university since the Reconstruction era. He enrolled in the University of Arkansas School of Law on Feb. 2, 1948, breaking the color barrier in higher education and starting integration of colleges and universities in the South. Hunt was born near Ashdown, Arkansas, the son of Jessie Gulley Moton and

neg: Mississippi Highway Patrol McKissick of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) and Stokely Carmichael of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) attended the protest. Guarded by the Mississippi Highway Patrol, the marchers were not attacked on their main route. The March concluded on June 26 with a rally of 15,000 people in Jackson, while over a thousand officers in the Mississippi Highway Patrol, National Guard, and local law enforcement agencies guarded the capitol building. In 2000 the Mississippi Highway Patrol appointed L.M. Claiborne to become the first African American Colonel of the Mississippi Highway Patrol. Colonel Claiborne began his career with the Mississippi Highway Safety

neg: Mary T. Washington Mary T. Washington Mary T. Washington was the first African-American woman to be a certified public accountant in the United States. Mary Thelma Morrison was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi on April 21, 1906, to Daisy and William Morrison. Her father was a carpenter, and her mother passed when she was only 6 years old. Following her mother’s death, Washington was raised by her grandparents in Chicago. She excelled as a math student at Wendell Phillips High School. She earned her bachelor's degree in business from Northwestern University in 1941. During college, she worked at Chicago's Douglas National Bank. After graduation,

neg: Greenwood High School (Mississippi) students. The school features a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.8 to 1. The school nickname is the Bulldogs. According to "U.S. News and World Report," for the 2009–10 school year Greenwood High School's student body of 719 students was 98 percent of African-American ethnicity and about 1 percent White American. Greenwood High School was one of the first two public high schools in the state of Mississippi to earn accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Around 1988 Greenwood High School was almost split evenly between black and white students. In 1998 it was 92% black. Many white students

neg: Florida State University Landis Green. After many years as a segregated university, in 1962 Maxwell Courtney became the first African-American undergraduate student admitted to Florida State. In 1968 Calvin Patterson became the first African American player for the Florida State University football team. Florida State today has the highest graduation rate for African American students of all universities in Florida. On March 4, 1969 the FSU chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, an unregistered university student organization, sought to use university facilities for meetings. The FSU administration, under President Stanley Marshall, subsequently decided not to allow the SDS the use of university

neg: Catherine Burks-Brooks Catherine Burks-Brooks Catherine Burks-Brooks (born October 8, 1939 near Selma, Alabama) is an American civil rights movement activist, teacher, social worker, jewelry retailer, and newspaper editor. Burks was born on October 8, 1939 near Selma, Alabama, she was however raised in Birmingham, Alabama. Burks was a student at Tennessee State University. Burks was active in the Mississippi movement and was the co-editor of Mississippi Free Press from 1962–1963. Burks taught as an elementary school teacher in 1964. In 1965–1966 she worked as a social worker in Detroit, she later became a jeweler specializing in African jewelry and clothing. Burks lived

neg: Student African American Brotherhood vision to create an organization that would provide student development intervention and support to African American men enrolled in college. He further designed Student African American Brotherhood as a black male development model, necessary to assist African American men in developing a more complete understanding of their responsibilities as college students and in being U.S. citizens. The First International SAAB Leadership Institute was held at the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio March 4–6, 2004 under the theme, "Strength For Your Journey: Voices of the Past". Brothers from various chapters were able to meet with other brothers who held similar

neg: Rodney D. Bennett any loss of life due to a students' break for Mardi Gras holiday. In 2017, William Carey University, also located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was struck by a tornado, and Bennett's leadership in providing temporary space at the University of Southern Mississippi later resulted in him being honored with a doctor of humane letters, honoris causa, from William Carey. Bennett is the first African-American president of a historically and predominantly white higher education institution in Mississippi. Rodney D. Bennett Dr. Rodney D. Bennett is the current President of the University of Southern Mississippi. Bennett received his Bachelor of Science in Mass

neg: William Emerson (journalist) As part of the New Journalism of the 1960s, Emerson had articles from such non-traditional authors as James Meredith, who wrote about his experiences as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. He was promoted to editor-in-chief in 1965 and remained in the position until the magazine's demise in 1969. In announcing that the February 8, 1969, issue would be the magazine's last, Curtis executive Martin Ackerman singled out Emerson for praise, but stated that the magazine had lost $5 million in 1968 and would lose a projected $3 million in 1969. In a meeting with employees

neg: Frank Dowsing Frank Dowsing Frank Dowsing was the first African-American to play football for both Tupelo High School and Mississippi State University. In the fall of 1967, Tupelo instituted a "choice" system, whereby students at all-white Tupelo High School and all-black Carver High School were given the opportunity to choose which school to attend. While no white students chose Carver, Dowsing was one of five African-American students who chose to attend Tupelo High School, and was the first to play football. Unlike school integration in many other areas of Mississippi and the South, this was a peaceful event. Because of a broken

neg: Unita Blackwell her hotel in Atlanta while attending commemoration ceremonies for Martin Luther King Jr., and was found later at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. She was reported as having been in the early stages of dementia in 2008. Currently, Blackwell resides in a nursing home on Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Unita Blackwell Unita Zelma Blackwell (born March 18, 1933) is an American civil rights activist who was the first African American woman, and the tenth African American, to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Blackwell was a project director for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and helped organize voter drives

neg: Sylvester Croom Sylvester Croom Sylvester Croom Jr. (born September 25, 1954) is a retired American football coach. He was previously the running backs coach for the NFL's Tennessee Titans. He was the head coach at Mississippi State University from 2004 to 2008, and the first African American head football coach in the Southeastern Conference. His father, Sylvester Croom, Sr., was himself an All-American football player at Alabama A&M, later the team chaplain at the University of Alabama, and has been recognized by that school as one of the state's 40 pioneers of civil rights. After his time at Mississippi State, Croom, Jr.

neg: Aunjanue Ellis mother, in the period drama film, "The Birth of a Nation". She is starring in the upcoming HBO drama series, "Lovecraft Country". Ellis was born in San Francisco, California, and raised on her grandmother's farm in McComb, Mississippi. She attended Tougaloo College before transferring to Brown University, where she completed her Bachelor of Arts in African-American studies. She also studied acting with Jim Barnhill and John Emigh. During her years at Brown University, Ellis made her debut in a student play. She went on to study acting in the Graduate Acting Program at New York University's Tisch School of the

neg: History of Texas A&M University–Commerce in a show of support that ultimately secured the school's continued existence. As the student body shrank in size in the late 1970s and early 1980s, however, it became increasingly diverse as older non-traditional students, ethnic and racial minorities, and international students all grew in numbers. Through the African-American Student Society at East Texas (ASSET), the university's African American students advocated their demands for equal treatment in housing, course offerings in African American history and literature, and the employment of African American faculty members; ultimately, the latter demand resulted in the first African American faculty member (David Talbot) and administrator

neg: History of East Texas State University school's continued existence. As the student body shrank in size in the late 1970s and early 1980s, however, it became increasingly diverse as older non-traditional students, ethnic and racial minorities, and international students all grew in numbers. Through the African-American Student Society at East Texas (ASSET), the university's African American students advocated their demands for equal treatment in housing, course offerings in African American history and literature, and the employment of African American faculty members, ultimately resulting in the first African American faculty member and administrator being hired in 1968 and 1972, respectively. Similarly, the proportion of female faculty members

neg: Mississippi State University Holmes, a graduate of Henderson High School in Starkville, became the first African-American student to enroll. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by Congress the year before, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was being debated, and the United States Supreme Court had ruled in "Brown v. Board of Education" (1954) that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. The School of Architecture admitted its first students in 1973, the College of Veterinary Medicine admitted its first class in 1977. The MSU Vet school (commonly referred to as the CVM) is the largest veterinary school under one roof in

neg: March Against Fear state. The march served as a catalyst for continued community organizing and political growth over the following years among African Americans in the state. They have maintained a high rate of voting and participation in politics since then. Disappointed by the slow pace of change following passage of civil rights legislation in 1964 and 1965, James Meredith, noted for being the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi, decided to make a solo 'March Against Fear' from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi, the state capital. He wanted to highlight continuing racial oppression in the Mississippi Delta, the

neg: Jackson, Mississippi 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. In June 1966, Jackson was the terminus of the James Meredith March, organized by James Meredith, the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi. The march, which began in Memphis, Tennessee, was an attempt to garner support for full implementation of civil rights in practice, following the legislation. It was accompanied by a new drive to register African Americans to vote in Mississippi. In this latter goal, it succeeded in registering between 2,500 and 3,000 black Mississippians to vote. The march ended on June 26 after Meredith, who had been

neg: Main Campus of North Carolina State University large arena-style theatre most notably used for orientation and comedy sketch programs, occupies the west end of the Talley Student Center. The building also contains numerous ballrooms, offices, lounges, and the university bookstore. Home to the Campus Cinema, Student Media, and the African American Cultural Center, this building opened in 1991 under the name "Student Center Annex." The building was renamed in honor of Dr. Augustus Witherspoon, the second African American student to receive a Ph.D. from NC State, in 1995. This was the first building on NC State's campus named for an African American. Witherspoon held the following positions

neg: University of Iowa 1873), to grant a law degree to an African American (Alexander G. Clark, Jr. in 1879), and to put an African American on a varsity athletic squad (Frank Holbrook in 1895). The university offered its first doctorate in 1898. The university was the first state university to recognize the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Allied Union (in 1970). The University of Iowa established the first law school west of the Mississippi River. It was the first university to use television in education, in 1932, and it pioneered in the field of standardized testing. Also, the University of Iowa was the

neg: Student African American Brotherhood Student African American Brotherhood The Student African American Brotherhood (SAAB), with over 168 chapters in the United States and abroad, was founded on the campus of Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, Georgia on October 17, 1990. SAAB mentors young African American men by educating them on their responsibilities as United States Citizens. The overall objective of the program is to make each young man aware of his potential, purpose, and life goals; however, much emphasis is focused on leadership development and training. Responding to the needs of African American males at the University, Founder Dr. Tyrone Bledsoe had a

neg: Louis Westerfield Louis Westerfield Louis Westerfield (born 1949 in DeKalb, Mississippi – August 24, 1996) was a lawyer, law professor, and the first African-American Dean of the University of Mississippi School of Law. Westerfield was the son of a Mississippi sharecropper. He received his bachelor's degree from Southern University at New Orleans in 1971. In 1974, he received his Juris Doctor from Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans. He earned his Master of Laws from Columbia Law School in New York City in 1980. Westerfield began his legal career in 1974 as an assistant district attorney in New Orleans and

neg: Edith Irby Jones Edith Irby Jones Edith Irby Jones (born December 23, 1927) is an American physician who was the first African American to be accepted as a non-segregated student at the University of Arkansas Medical School and the first black student to attend racially mixed classes in the American South. She was the first African American to graduate from a southern medical school, first black intern in the state of Arkansas, and later first black intern at Baylor College of Medicine. Jones was the first woman president of the National Medical Association. She has been honored by many awards, including induction into

neg: Hannah Roberts a student at USM, Roberts became a member of the Kappa Delta sorority. She currently attends medical school at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi. Hannah Roberts Hannah Camille Roberts (born August 21, 1993) is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Mount Olive, Mississippi. She was named the Distinguished Young Woman of Mississippi in 2011 and crowned Miss Mississippi 2015. Roberts competed for the Miss America 2016 title on September 13, 2015, and was named first runner-up. In July 2010, Roberts won the Covington County's Junior Miss title and competed in July 2010 finals for the state

neg: Vivienne Malone-Mayes served on the board of the Heart of Texas Region Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center. Vivienne Malone-Mayes was a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority and served as President of Waco Alumnae Chapter. After Lillian K. Bradley in 1960, Malone-Mayes became one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in Mathematics from University of Texas (and fifth African-American woman in the United States). She was the first African-American member of the faculty at Baylor University, and the first African-American person elected to Executive Committee of the Association of Women in Mathematics. Student congress of Baylor voted her

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neg: Department of African American Studies – Syracuse University Studies classes that highlighted and included the intellectual, historical and cultural contributions of African Americans. The administration at Syracuse University subsequently began to make concessions by offering Black Studies classes as an elective. African American Studies (AAS) began as a program in 1972 and then became a department as part of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1979. The 1960s student protests also resulted in an Afro-American Cultural center and marked the beginning of the MLK library collection. The first conference on Critical Issues in Afro-American and African Studies was held at Syracuse University in 1976. During the 1980s,

neg: Curtis Wilkie as civilians in the Manhattan Project. After his father died in a fire in Greenville in 1947, he spent the majority of his childhood in Summit, Mississippi, where his mother was a schoolteacher and his stepfather was the town's Presbyterian minister. He graduated from Corinth High School in 1958 and from the University of Mississippi in 1963 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. While at the University of Mississippi, Wilkie witnessed the discrimination against the first African-American students to enroll, and thereafter became involved in progressive political causes. From 1963 to 1969, at a time when the civil rights movement

neg: Women's education in the United States called Alpha Delta Pi Women's Fraternity, was founded at Wesleyan Female College in Macon, Georgia and became the first secret society for women. 1855: The University of Iowa becomes the first coeducational public or state university in the United States. 1858: Mary Fellows became the first woman west of the Mississippi River to receive a baccalaureate degree. 1862: Mary Jane Patterson became the first African-American woman to earn a BA in 1862. She earned her degree from Oberlin College. 1864: Rebecca Crumpler became the first African-American woman to graduate from a U.S. college with a medical degree and the first

neg: Constance Baker Motley well as spending a night with civil rights activist Medgar Evers under armed guard. In 1950 she wrote the original complaint in the case of "Brown v. Board of Education". The first African-American woman ever to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, in "Meredith v. Fair" she won James Meredith's effort to be the first black student to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962. Motley was successful in nine of the ten cases she argued before the Supreme Court. The tenth decision, regarding jury composition, was eventually overturned in her favor. She was otherwise a key legal

neg: Frank Dowsing was an all-American as a defensive back, an academic all-American, and was elected Mr. Mississippi State by his fellow students. This was the first time a black student had won any sort of election at the school. Just before graduation, he married LaFawn Gilliam in the Chapel of Memories at Mississippi State. Upon graduation, Dowsing was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles, but instead chose to fulfill a lifelong dream by attended medical school at the Mississippi University School of Medicine. Within two years of their marriage, Dowsing was divorced, and dropped out of medical school in his third year. This

neg: Jackson metropolitan area, Mississippi James Meredith March, organized by James Meredith, the first African-American to enroll at the University of Mississippi. The march, which began in Memphis, Tennessee, was an attempt to garner support for the Civil Rights Movement and was accompanied by a drive to register African-Americans to vote in Mississippi. In this latter aim, it succeeded in registering between 2,500 and 3,000 black Mississippians to vote. The march ended on June 26 after Meredith, who had been wounded by a sniper's bullet earlier on the march, addressed a large rally of some 15,000 people in Jackson. Since 1968, Jackson has been the

neg: Robert Khayat Robert Khayat Robert Conrad "Bob" Khayat (born April 18, 1938) was the 15th Chancellor of the University of Mississippi. He was appointed in 1995. Khayat, a former student of the University of Mississippi, is the only Chancellor of the university to be a member of the Student Hall of Fame there. He has B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Mississippi and a LL.M. degree from Yale University. He was born in Moss Point, Mississippi. His brother is Ed Khayat, former NFL defensive lineman and Philadelphia Eagles head coach. Khayat played American football in the National Football League from

neg: Donald W. Zacharias to his being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. During his tenure enrollment rose to Mississippi's highest at almost 16,000. African-American enrollment more than doubled to 2,200, making up 15 percent of the student body, the highest percentage among SEC schools. Upon his retirement from MSU, Zacharias said: "I saw things in Mississippi State University that others might not have seen. I felt that I had made the right decision to be at this university because I liked both what it stood for and its overall character. I liked its mission, and I liked the students and alumni. I saw the potential."

neg: History of Florida State University universities in the country." Florida State also established the Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Space Biosciences and the Programs in Medical Studies. After many years as a segregated university, and partly due to the efforts of students starting in the late 1950s (including sit-ins and an application to attend Florida A&M University by FSU student Alan Breitler in 1960,) in 1962 Maxwell Courtney became the first African American undergraduate student admitted to Florida State. In 1968 Calvin Patterson became the first African American player for the Florida State University football team. Tallahassee and Florida State were difficult places for African Americans

neg: Charles E. Anderson Pulsating Growth of Cumulus Clouds." Anderson earned his Ph.D. in 1960, becoming the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in Meteorology. Charles E. Anderson Charles E. Anderson (1919–1994) was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in Meteorology. He was a dean at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Anderson was born August 13, 1919, in Clayton, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. His mother and father were from Mississippi. He earned a bachelor of science degree in Chemistry in 1941 from Lincoln University and received high accolades as he graduated third in his class. Lincoln University was also the

neg: Southern University continued growth and a lack of land for expansion, in 1914 the university moved to Scotlandville, along Scott's Bluff facing the Mississippi River and north of Baton Rouge. Now absorbed into the capital, this area is included as a historic destination of the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail. The first president of what is now known as Southern University at Baton Rouge was Dr. Joseph Samuel Clark. Clark, an African-American leader from Baton Rouge. He had led Baton Rouge College and the Louisiana Colored Teachers Association. In 1921, the Louisiana Constitutional Convention authorized the reorganization and expansion of Southern University;

neg: Maidie Norman on African American literature and theater. From 1955 to 1956, she taught at the University of Texas at Tyler. Norman was also an artist-in-residence at Stanford University from 1968 to 1969. In 1970, she created and taught a course in African American theater history at UCLA. It was the first course devoted to the subject of African American studies in the college's history. Norman taught at UCLA until 1977. UCLA established the Maidie Norman Research Award for the best student essay on African-American film or theater in her honor. On December 22, 1937, she married real estate broker McHenry Norman

neg: Thomas I. Atkins Thomas I. Atkins Thomas Irving Atkins (March 2, 1939 in Elkhart, Indiana – June 27, 2008 in Brooklyn) was an African American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Boston City Council and General Counsel of the NAACP. Atkins was born on March 2, 1939, in Elkhart, Indiana to a Pentecostal minister and a domestic. As a child, he overcame a bout of polio. He was the first black student body president at Elkhart High School. In 1960, he was elected student body president at Indiana University. He was the school's first African American student body president

neg: Frazier Thompson Frazier Thompson Frazier Leon Thompson, Sr., (192?-1991), originally from Philadelphia was the first African-American student to enroll at and graduate from the University of Notre Dame. Thompson began attending Notre Dame in 1944 as part of the V-12 Navy College Training Program and graduated in the class of 1947. He was also the first African-American student to compete in Notre Dame athletics and to win a Notre Dame monogram. Thompson went on to work with the United States Postal Service and as an engineer testing space suit design at NASA In 1997, the university created the Frazier Thompson scholarship in

neg: Michigan State University It was not until 1899 that the State Agricultural College admitted its first African American student, William O. Thompson. After graduation, he taught at what is now Tuskegee University. President Jonathan L. Snyder invited its president Booker T. Washington to be the Class of 1900 commencement speaker. A few years later, Myrtle Craig became the first woman African-American student to enroll at the College. Along with the Class of 1907, she received her degree from U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, commencement speaker for the Semi-Centennial celebration. The City of East Lansing was incorporated the same year, and two years later the

neg: Freedom Summer (film) Freedom Summer (film) Freedom Summer is a 2014 American documentary film, written, produced and directed by Stanley Nelson Jr. The film had its world premiere at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014. It won the "Best Documentary" award at "2014 Pan African Film Festival". The film had its U.S. television premiere at PBS on June 24, 2014. The film narrates the events of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer, when more than 700 student activists took segregated Mississippi by storm because of underscored by the systematic exclusion of African Americans from the political process. Robert Parris Moses of the

neg: Supreme Court of Mississippi the only African-American justice, though not the first to serve on the court. The first female justice was Lenore Prather, who became chief justice; the first African-American was Reuben Anderson. To date, no female African-American justice has served on the Mississippi Supreme Court. Supreme Court of Mississippi The Supreme Court of Mississippi is the highest court in the state of Mississippi. It was created in the first constitution of the state following its admission as a State of the Union in 1817. Initially it was known as the "High Court of Errors and Appeals." The court is an appellate court,

neg: Alfred Oscar Coffin born May 14, 1861 in Pontotoc, Mississippi. Alfred Oscar Coffin Alfred Oscar Coffin (May 14, 1861 - 1933) was a Professor of Mathematics, and Romance language. He is best known for being the first African American to obtain a Ph.d in Biology. Alfred Coffin earned his bachelor's degree and master's degree at Fisk University. In 1889, he earned his Ph.d in Biology at Illinois Wesleyan University. In 1887, Alfred Coffin taught at Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College for two years in Mississippi. From 1889 to 1895, He then later became a Professor of Mathematics and Romance Language at Wiley University

neg: Black Southerners state government is permitted to deny a citizen the right to vote based on race or previous enslavement, were both nullified in 1883. The Montgomery Improvement Association was formed in 1955, with Martin Luther King Jr. as president, after Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in the white section of a public city bus. The Association organized carpooling for blacks as well as weekly prayer groups, and, in 1956, it was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. James Meredith was the first African American student to attend the University of Mississippi, on October 1, 1962, because the governor of the

neg: African-American studies Program was implemented by UC Berkeley administration on January 13, 1969. In 1969, St. Clair Drake was named the first chair of the degree granting, "Program in African and Afro-American Studies" at Stanford University. Many Black Studies Programs and departments and programs around the nation were created in subsequent years. At University of California, Santa Barbara, similarly, student activism led to the establishment of a Black Studies department, amidst great targeting and discrimination of student leaders of color on the University of California campuses. In the fall of 1968, black students from UCSB joined the national civil rights movement to

neg: Saadi Simawe to North Africa to teach, write and do research. Simawe obtained a student visa to the USA in 1980 and traveled from Tripoli, Libya to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he enrolled as a graduate student at the University of Nebraska. He received an MA in English from the University of Nebraska in 1983. The following fall he enrolled at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Simawe first completed an MA in African-American Literature, before going on to a PhD in English, which he completed in 1994. Darwin Turner (1932–1991), the well-respected scholar of African American Studies, was Simawe's thesis advisor.

neg: Raymond L. Johnson Raymond L. Johnson Raymond Lewis Johnson (born 1943) is an American mathematician, currently a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park and an adjunct professor of mathematics at Rice University. He was the first African-American student at Rice University, and the first African-American mathematics professor at the University of Maryland. His research concerns non-well-posed problems and harmonic analysis. Johnson was born on 25 June 1943 in Alice, Texas and educated in a small segregated schoolhouse, with children in four different grades in each of its two rooms. Because he had been taught by his grandfather how to read

neg: Coolidge Ball Basketball Tournament at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. In August 2008, Ball was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. Ball is also in the Ole Miss Athletic Hall of Fame. Coolidge Ball Coolidge Ball, born in Indianola, Mississippi, was the first African American athlete to play any sport at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in Oxford, Mississippi. Ball played forward for the Ole Miss basketball team. Because freshmen were not allowed to play with the varsity team back then, Ball played just three seasons (1972, 1973 and 1974). He enrolled in 1970 and received a basketball

neg: Edith Irby Jones her service in 2015. Two international hospitals also are named in her honor: Dr. Edith Irby Jones Clinic in Vaudreuil, Haiti, which she helped found in 1991, and the Dr. Edith Irby Jones Emergency Clinic in Veracruz, Mexico. Edith Irby Jones Edith Irby Jones (born December 23, 1927) is an American physician who was the first African American to be accepted as a non-segregated student at the University of Arkansas Medical School and the first black student to attend racially mixed classes in the American South. She was the first African American to graduate from a southern medical school, first

neg: Bobby Hamilton (American football) impressive college football career with 18 sacks and 173 tackles (18 for losses). Bobby Hamilton (American football) Bobby Hamilton (born July 1, 1971) is a former American football defensive end. He was originally signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 1994. He played college football at Southern Mississippi. Hamilton attended East Marion High School in Columbia, Mississippi and was a student and a letterman in football, basketball, baseball, and track. Bobby Hamilton graduated from East Marion High School in 1989. Hamilton attended the University of Southern Mississippi and was a student and a football standout. In

neg: Bobby Hamilton (American football) Bobby Hamilton (American football) Bobby Hamilton (born July 1, 1971) is a former American football defensive end. He was originally signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 1994. He played college football at Southern Mississippi. Hamilton attended East Marion High School in Columbia, Mississippi and was a student and a letterman in football, basketball, baseball, and track. Bobby Hamilton graduated from East Marion High School in 1989. Hamilton attended the University of Southern Mississippi and was a student and a football standout. In football, he was a four-year letterman and a two-year starter, and finished his

neg: George Brown Jr. California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he became head of the UCLA Student Housing Association and helped found the University Housing Cooperative Association (UHCA), a student housing cooperative, in 1938. The UHCA was formed in part to allow African American students to live off campus in the Westwood section of Los Angeles which at that time did not allow African Americans in the neighborhood. To emphasize the point, Brown took an African American roommate in the first inter-racial housing arrangement at UCLA. The UCHA experience was also the first example of Brown's lifelong association with cooperatives. Shortly after the Japanese attack

neg: Janel Bishop New Hampshire has placed at Miss Teen USA. At the time of her pageant win, Bishop was a student at Manchester West High School and wished to pursue a career in education. Janel Bishop Janel Bishop (born 1970s) is an American beauty queen who won the 1991 Miss Teen USA title. She is the first African-American winner of this pageant. Bishop won the Miss New Hampshire Teen USA title and represented New Hampshire in the Miss Teen USA 1991 pageant held in Biloxi, Mississippi on August 19, 1991. She became the first contestant from New Hampshire to win the Miss

neg: Mary Millben edited and co-authored the OU Press book "What Possibilities, a Guide to Opportunities and Traditions", detailing the history and traditions of the University of Oklahoma. At OU, Millben was elected the second African-American female Student Body President in 2004 and the first African-American female Vice-President in 2003. She was one of four who represented the University at the National Campaign for Political and Civic Engagement at Harvard University in 2004 and, appointed by U.S. Congressman Tom Cole, was an Oklahoma delegate to the 2006 African American Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. - a national conference organized to bring together government

neg: Bully (mascot) Miss. The student wearing the suit had to be carted off the field on a stretcher and subsequently underwent two surgeries for a compound fracture. The student later sued ESPN and Mississippi State for $75,000 in damages, claiming negligence on the part of ESPN and the University. Bully (mascot) Bully is the official mascot of the Mississippi State University Bulldogs in Starkville, Mississippi, and the name is given to both the costumed mascot and the live bulldog that appears at State games. The live mascot Bully is an American Kennel Club registered English Bulldog, and each dog is given the

neg: University of Texas at Austin which dedicated the Agricultural and Mechanical College a 1/3 interest in the Available University Fund, the annual income from Permanent University Fund investments. UT Austin was inducted into the Association of American Universities in 1929. During World War II, the University of Texas was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission. In 1950, the University of Texas was the first major university in the South to accept an African-American student. John S. Chase went on to become the first licensed African-American