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Article "UR to Award First Degree to Lee Negro"
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Title
Article "UR to Award First Degree to Lee Negro"
Subject
Description
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 employee at Fort Lee. He was receiving his master's of commerce degree. Carpenter was noted as a member of a graduate class at Ft. Lee for the U.S. Logistics Management Center and the Quartermaster Service. He had earned his undergraduate degree at Lincoln University, an HBCU founded in Pennsylvania in 1854. The articles concludes that UR's Board of Trustees had, in the preceding February, "reaffirmed the school's traditional policy of racial segregation, but opened certain graduate and professional classes to Negroes."
Source
"UR to Award First Degree to Lee Negro." Richmond News Leader, June 1964, RG 6.2.4 Box 15 Folder 17, University Archives, Virginia Baptist Historical Society.
Publisher
The Richmond News Leader
Date
1964
Relation
Format
Language
English
Type
Identifier
NL6.2.4-1964.jpg
Coverage
Richmond (Va.)
Files
Citation
“Article "UR to Award First Degree to Lee Negro",” University of Richmond Race & Racism Project, accessed May 23, 2025, https://memory.richmond.edu/items/show/2885.