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

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 that Carpenter was from Petersburg, VA, and a civilian employee at Fort Lee. Carpenter had been attending classes for the United States Logistics Management Center and the Quartermaster Service conducted by the university at Fort Lee, and then the class was moved to University College, UR's downtown division opened in 1962. Carpenter had been taking classes since September 1962, and finished her master's degree in February 1964. The article notes that a university spokesman "said there are no other Negroes now enrolled in the regular program at University College." In February 1964, some courses in the American Institute of Banking program had been opened to black students, with no other plans for integration.

"UR to Confer Degree On 1st Negro Monday." The Richmond Times-Dispatch (6 June 1964): 2. RG 6.2.4 Box 15 Folder 17, University Archives, Virginia Baptist Historical Society. Also available online here.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch

1964-06-06

English

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Richmond (Va.)