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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.
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.
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.
Kabria Baumgartner. Historians have examined how social movements influenced African American student activism in mid-to-late twentieth century America.
Feb 7, 2020 · While the class albums are not yet available in Amherst College Digital Collections, here we offer a preview: five black men of Amherst whose names were not included in Harold Wade, Jr.’s book. Class of 1877. Proceeding chronologically, the first black student of the 1870s appears to be Madison Smith, about whom we know very little.
Wade lionized the man in Black Men of Amherst: Teachers like Jackson “instilled in their students a spirit of competitiveness and a desire for perfection unrivalled since. The result was phenomenal, as generation after generation of high achieving blacks came from Dunbar.”
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.
