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Pictured in the third row of the track team photograph from The Web 1971 is Norman Williams, who was the first black athlete on the track team and the first black athlete to receive a full scholarship from the University. According to the Collegian,…

This image found in The Web 1971 yearbook shows the University of Richmond's basketball team. Featured in this photo is Carlton Mack, the first black athlete signed by the University of Richmond to play sports. The first black residential student,…

This image in The Web 1970 yearbook features the first black University of Richmond residential campus student, Barry Greene. In this photo, he poses with his fraternity brothers of Zeta Beta Tau, a historically Jewish fraternity. At this time there…

This image from The Web 1970 yearbook is a class photo of Barry Greene, the first Black student allowed to enroll to the University of Richmond's main campus. During his time at UR, Greene joined a Jewish fraternity, Zeta Beta Tau, and earned a…

Josephine Ethel Otey—pictured in the fourth column, second row—was a sophomore in The Web 1962 and one of the first black women to attend the main campus after the University of Richmond began integrating courses at University College in…

This photograph of the Westhampton College Glee Club features Isabelle Thomas and Madieth Malone, two of the first black women to attend the main campus after the University of Richmond began integrating courses at University College in the spring…

This picture from the athletics section of 1968 yearbook is one of the many photographs of the varsity basketball team. A black student athlete from East Carolina University can be seen playing against UR athletes. There were no African American…

The Student Organization for Black Awareness (SOBA) got together to establish three goals for the 1977-1978 academic year. First, they wanted to see the University of Richmond "actively recruit blacks and minority students." To do so, they aimed to…

This is a letter written by Leonard J. Theberge who was the President of the National Legal Center for the Public Interest in Washington D.C. to the President of the University of Richmond, E. Bruce Heilman. The NLCPI was founded in 1975 as a…

This document, "Statement of the Dissenting Views of Dean F. D. G. Ribble of the University of Virginia Law School," was attached to the end of "Report of Special Committee on Racial Discrimination for 1955." In this document, Ribble acknowledged…