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  • Collection: Crossing the Color Line

Going Places; Students walking by the Bell Tower

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African American students at NC State walk, hand in hand, from the Memorial Bell Tower.

Ted Bush, Karen Wilkerson, Cynthia Hinnaut, Mike Hunter, 1970

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Four African American students sit outside of North Carolina State University's D.H. Hill Library in 1970.

Agromeck Photos of First African American Undergraduate Students, 1957

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These photos of Manuel Houston Crockett, Jr., Edward Carson, Irwin Richard Holmes, Jr., and Walter VanBuren Holmes were collected from the 1957 Agromeck (North Carolina State's yearbook) by the NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center.…

Irwin Holmes playing tennis, 1956

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This photo depicts Irwin Holmes, one of NC State's first African American undergraduate students. In 1958 he joined the tennis team, making him the first African American student at State College to play on a varsity sports team.