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Do We Shrink Like a Raisin or Explode?

Campus Leaders,

This letter is an appeal to our sisters and brothers and the yard requesting your active support in the struggle to create an Afrikan American Studies Department. An Afrikan American…

Al Heartley and William Cooper are the first African Americans to play basketball at North Carolina State. The 1967 freshmen basketball team was the first integrated basketball team.

First African American to receive a basketball scholarship at North Carolina State University.

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…