Agromeck Photos of First African American Undergraduate Students, 1957

Title

Agromeck Photos of First African American Undergraduate Students, 1957

Description

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. These four young men, who arrived at NC State in 1956, were the first African American undergraduate students to enroll at the University.

Source

"Agromeck Photos of First African-American Undergraduate Students," 1957, NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, North Carolina, http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/exhibits/engineering/af-am-agromeck.jpg.

Date

1957 (pictures taken)

Publisher

NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center

Identifier

ccl061

Original Format

photograph

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Citation

“Agromeck Photos of First African American Undergraduate Students, 1957,” The State of History, accessed April 26, 2024, https://soh.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/items/show/304.