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1. 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.

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3. 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.

4. www.amherst.edu › 2018-winter › his-black-history2018: Winter/Spring | His Black History | Amherst College

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   There are multiple sides to this black man of Amherst, of course. But whether you knew Harold Wade in reality or by reputation, it turns out there is more to learn about who he was, what he stood for and how his legacy refuses to fade away.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. www.academia.edu › 26025043“Be Your Own Man”: Student Activism and the Birth of Black ...

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   “Be Your Own Man”: Student Activism and the Birth of Black Studies at Amherst College, 1965–1972. Kabria Baumgartner. Historians have examined how social movements influenced African American student activism in mid-to-late twentieth century America.

8. 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.