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First African-American football player to make All American

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

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

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.

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

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…

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

Chap. CXXX.--AN ACT Donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in…

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.…