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1. www.aws.amherst.edu › news › news_releasesThe Men “Black Men of Amherst” Left Out

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   Feb 23, 2021 · These proto-yearbooks , recently digitized, offer new information on Amherst's early Black history. W hen Harold Wade Jr. ’68 wrote Black Men of Amherst, he knew he likely missed including some of the earliest Black alumni, since he didn’t have access to the earliest student information.

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3. www.amherst.edu › five-black-alumni-from-the-1800sFive Black Alumni from the 1800s | Amherst in Pictures ...

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   Five students who attended Amherst College between 1875 and 1883 are featured here in a collage on the cover of a leather-bound Amherst College class album from 1878.

4. consecratedeminence.wordpress.amherst.edu › 2020Black Men of Amherst, 1877-1883 – The Consecrated Eminence

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   Feb 7, 2020 · The list below is of those students attending Amherst who were clearly identifiable (from either yearbook photos or written references) as black Americans. The list is of course incomplete.

5. libguides.amherst.edu › cThe Racial History of Amherst College - Ancestral Bridges ...

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   Jan 26, 2024 · The Racial History of Amherst College. In the Amherst College Anti-Racism Plan, released on 3 August 2020, President Biddy Martin noted the need for a historical study of the College’s ties to slaveholding and to capital accumulation based on slavery.

6. www.aws.amherst.edu › news › magazineThe Men Black Men of Amherst Left Out

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   Apr 9, 2021 · After graduating at the top of his high school class in Salem, he became the first Black man nominated for admittance to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. But you must be 17 to enter, and Wilson was a few months short, as the congressman who nominated him surely knew.

7. direct.mit.edu › tneq › article“Be Your Own Man”: Student Activism and the Birth of Black ...

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   Jun 1, 2016 · This essay extends the scholarship by telling the story of African American male student activists who led the fight for curricular reform at Amherst College, then an all-male liberal arts college in Massachusetts.

8. www.amherst.edu › amherst-story › magazineCollege Row | Black Men of Amherst: The Second Edition ...

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   Black Men of Amherst was published posthumously in 1976. The first edition traced the legacy of renowned African-Americans educated at Amherst, from the College’s first black graduate—Edward Jones, class of 1826—to such luminaries as Charles Hamilton Houston, the lawyer and civil rights pioneer from the class of 1915.