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Article "UR to Award First Degree to Lee Negro"

This article, likely published in June 1964 in the Richmond News Leader,notes that the University of Richmond would be conferring a degree to a black student for the first time. The student was Walter Carpenter,a Petersburg resident and a civilian…

Article "UR to Confer Degree On 1st Negro Monday"

This June 6, 1964 article notes that the University of Richmond will for the first time be conferring a degree to a black student. The articles names Charles Carpenter (a mistake, the student's name was Walter Carpenter) as the student. It states…

Letter from W. Carter Younger to Lee Nell

http://memory.richmond.edu/files/originals-for-csv-imports/UA6.2.5.25.4-19800331.pdf

This is a follow up letter in respect to the affirmative action plans and the self-evaluation and transition plans prepared for the T.C. Williams School of Law and for the Graduate Students Division at the University of Richmond. It was sent by W.…

Oral History with Dr. Darrell Walden (RBS)

In this oral history interview, professor of accounting Dr. Darrell Walden sat down with Marissa Brown ('19) on March 25, 2019, in Walden's office in the Robins School of Business. Over the course of the one hour interview, Walden spoke about being…

Oral History with Professor Raymond Slaughter (RBS)

In this oral history interview, retired professor of accounting Raymond Slaughter (‘77-‘18) sat down with Cole Richard (’21) and Jenifer Yi (’22) on June 10, 2019, in Boatwright Memorial Library. Over the course of the one…

University of Richmond Commencement Program, June 1964