- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- [JoAnne Smart and Bettye Ann Davis Tillman, 1956 ]
- Creator:
- unknown
- Date of Original:
- 1956-09
- Subject:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Race relations--North Carolina--Greensboro - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- These three black and white photographs taken in the fall of 1956 and depict the first two African American students admitted to the Woman?s College of the University of North Carolina (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) . In 1956, JoAnne Smart of Raleigh, North Carolina (left) and Bettye Ann Davis Tillman (right) of Wadesboro, North Carolina became the first African-American students to enroll at the College. The two graduated in 1960. JoAnne Smart Drane later became a member of the Board of Trustees.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/2828
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
- Extent:
- 8" x 10"
- Original Collection:
- CRG
UA104 Photographic Prints Collection - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Rights:
-
