- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Mary Frances Early
- Date of Original:
- 1961/1962
- Subject:
- African American women--Georgia--Athens
Musicians--Georgia--Atlanta
Women musicians--Georgia--Atlanta
Women--Georgia--Athens
African American women musicians--Georgia--Athens
African American musicians--Georgia--Athens
University of Georgia--Students
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Athens
Civil rights--Georgia--Athens
Segregation in education--Georgia--Athens
Dormitories--Georgia--Athens
College students--Georgia--Athens
African American college students--Georgia--Athens
Women college students--Georgia--Athens
African American women college students--Georgia--Athens
Dormitories--Furniture, equipment, etc. - People:
- Early, Mary Frances
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Mary Frances Early, the first African American to graduate from the University of Georgia, sits in her Center Myers dorm room, which also housed Charlayne Hunter-Gault, the first African American woman to be admitted to the university. A riot erupted outside of this room two days after Hunter arrived on campus in 1961.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/mary-frances-early-b-1936/m-8266/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Mary Frances Early
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/mary-frances-early-b-1936
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights: