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This photograph depicts North Carolina State University official Banks C. Talley. Talley served as Vice-Chancellor of Student Affairs from 1969-1977.

This pamphlet was distributed at the influential and controversial Black Power Forum held at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro from November 1-3, 1967. It is particularly critical of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. It…

Francis King, a local civil rights leader, was involved in the 1963 Civil Rights Movement in Williamston, NC.

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 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.

Portrait of Chancellor John T. Caldwell, taken in 1962