Sentences with phrase «first black students»

School's first black student president was the target of a racist attack.

Danny Lyon, At Ole Miss (University of Mississippi) As James Meredith Tried To Enroll As First Black Student, 1962, gelatin silver enlargement print.

Oberlin College, named after minister Jean - Frederic Oberlin, was the first college in the United States to admit students of all races and in 1844 graduated the first black student, George B. Vashon.

I was the first Black Student body President there.

He was among the first black students to attend the school after the district was integrated in the early 1960s, he said.

Paterson, the son of influential Harlem political leader Basil Paterson, was among the first black students to attend the Hempstead schools after the district was integrated in the early 1960s.

I was actually an unwitting part of the social revolution: a skinny little Philadelphia girl who was one of the first black students to attend a famous girls» private school in Bryn Mawr, a bastion of high society where, in the past, the only black faces had been in the kitchen.»

The University of Mississippi admitted its first black student, James Meredith.

In high school, Leo mixes with a socially diverse crowd that includes Starla and Niles Whitehead, a pair of impoverished orphans from Appalachia; Ike Jefferson, one of the first black students integrated into Leo's school; and twins Sheba and Trevor Poe — seemingly picture - perfect Southern siblings.

Cafritz was among the first black students admitted to the university, but it was still segregated.

He was the first black student to graduate with a BA Fine Art from the University of Pretoria.

While not immune from racial tensions, the student Alma Stone Williams, an African - American woman, is considered by some to be the first black student to enroll in an all - white institution of higher education in the South during the Jim Crow era.

Charles was the first black student to graduate with a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Witwatersrand, during apartheid South Africa.