The Embattled First Generation of Black Students at UNC Speaks Through History and Theater Project
Posted Dec 1, 2016
UNC-Chapel Hill has long enjoyed a reputation for progressivism. But between 1952 and 1972, the first generation of black youth permitted to enroll as undergraduate students encountered a campus and a culture all but unrecognizable to us today. "At basketball and football games, the bands would play 'Dixie,'" recalls Walter Jackson, from the class of 1967.
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