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Willie Burden and Charlie Young are the first African Americans to receive full football scholarships at North Carolina State University.

First African American at N.C. State to win All American award. Led N.C. State to the 1974 NCAA Basketball Championship

First African-American football player to make All American

Irwin Holmes was one of the first African Americans to enroll at N.C. State in 1956, and the first to earn an undergraduate degree in 1960. He also became the first African American to captain an athletic team, serving as co-captain of the tennis…

1971 Article in the Technician about the hiring of the first Negro Coach ---Athletic Director Willis Casey.

The Society of Afro-American Culture was the main student organization which supported the Physical Plant employees in the spring of 1969. They released a statement of support encouraging university administration to accept the workers' demands.

The Good Neighbor Council was intricately involved in the Physical Plant employees' situation. The Council advised and made recommendations to Chancellor Caldwell but also worked on the employees' behalves. In this letter, the Council's support for…

Chancellor Caldwell originally acceded to the request that female maids not be forced to work in male dormitories. However, three weeks later the chancellor reversed his decision. The male members of the Non-Academic Employees Union vehemently…

The absence of black faculty on NC State's campus was a concern for the Good Neighbor Council. As early as 1969, the Council pushed Chancellor Caldwell and university administration to add more black professors. In this letter, the Council asks, "Why…

In 1971, the Good Neighbor Council's Committee on Institutional Racism produced a report outlining the evidence they found of NC State's institutional racism in its employment practices. The first four pages of the report outline the major problem…