Browse Items (114 total)

http://memory.richmond.edu/files/originals-for-csv-imports/UA6.2.4.7.8-1968.pdf
This document is a letter that was sent from an unknown sender to Peter R. Neal at an unknown date, likely in May of 1968. The sender wrote to Neal regarding a letter he sent about the University of Richmond’s Board of Publications’ decision to not…

http://memory.richmond.edu/files/originals-for-csv-imports/RTD-19710522.jpg
This article, "UR to Honor Dr. James With Degree," was published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch by an unnamed author on May 22, 1971. On June 7th, the University of Richmond awarded its first honorary degree to a black person, Dr. Allix B. James, who…

http://memory.richmond.edu/files/originals-for-csv-imports/DSLX_Boatwright_1944.jpg
In this document, found in the collection of F.W. Boatwrights correspondences, is a public apology given to the university community for the recent racist manner in which Mr. Russell Jones had been treated. When Mr. Jones had visited, on invitation,…

RichmondCollegian.XXVIII.9.6-19411114.jpg
This article debriefs students on the speech President Boatwright had given at a baptist convention in Atlanta. In it, the author explains the ways President Boatwright spoke out against Nazism, saying it "disrupts the racial and religious issues of…

RichmondCollegian.XXX.10.4-19440317.jpg
This article discusses the "Institute on Inter-American Affairs" program that was held at UR on April 7-8 in 1944. The program began with an address given by President Boatwright followed by a speech from Pauline Turnbull. Turnbull was a faculty…

CollegianLIII.23.1-19660325.jpg
This article recounts University of Richmond President Dr. George M. Modlin's decision to abstain from filling out a 1966 questionnaire on Virginia college integration. Modlin said that he declined to answer because he thought the survey contained…

CollegianLVIII.4.2-19701009.jpg
A Collegian editorial expressing views on the racial diversity of the faculty and student body at the University of Richmond. The editorial called for a more racially diverse community, but the university claimed that it did not discriminate in…

16903210-IMG_2656.JPG
In the 1954-1955 section of the President's Report titled "Report of The T.C. Williams School of Law," there was a brief subsection labelled "Segregation" which told of the role of the Association of American Law Schools in addressing segregation…

CollegianLVIII.4.1-19701009.jpg
This article summarizes a meeting where Dr. George Modlin spoke on institutional change. Dr. Modlin had received a letter from the Civil Rights Director of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) , and was asked to comment on the…

RichmondCollegianL.23.2-19630329b.jpg
A letter to the editor of the Collegian signed by 250 students on campus in response to Eva Wong's disciplining following the Westhampton College Song Contest. Wong, invited a friend from Union Theological Seminary, who was a black student originally…
Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2