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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.

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.…

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

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

In this letter, Attorney General Rodman advised Chancellor Bostian not to take any further action regarding the applications of African American students. Athough a lower court had ordered the admission of three students to UNC-Chapel Hill, the…

William Friday outlined the requirements of the consent decree in a memo to all the Chancellors of the UNC system. In the memo he highlighted the need to increase enrollment of black students and further develop historically black colleges and…

In this letter, Friday instructed the Chancellors of the Consolidated University of North Carolina system that they should begin processing applications submitted by African American students.

In this memo, dated March 1, 1956, Friday addressed Chancellor Bostian's concerns about processing the applications of African American students. Friday stated that, as per North Carolina Attorney General William Rodman's instructions, any African…

In this letter, Attorney General Rodman acknowleged that he had received a letter from Chancellor Bostian. He also demonstrated his support for keeping North Carolina schools segregated, telling Bostian that he hoped State College's faculty were…

To the Editor: This is in reference to the series of articles written about Blacks on campus in the last three editorials of the Technician. The articles were highly biased against the Blacks, which is an oddity if they were written by highly…