Remembering Elson Floyd: From segregated North Carolina town to UNC to university president

Posted Jun 23, 2015
Floyd, the first black WSU president, grew up in segregated Henderson, North Carolina, on an unpaved street. “We couldn’t even afford paper when he started marking in the sand to add up numbers,” his mother, Dorothy Floyd, told The Spokesman-Review soon after Floyd was hired at WSU. “He always loved education."....Once Elson Floyd graduated from the University of North Carolina, he helped put his three brothers through school. (The Spokesman-Review)

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