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Feb 23, 2021 · News & Events The Men “Black Men of Amherst” Left Out. The inspiring, complex stories of five Black alumni from the 1800s. Amherst College class albums from 1877, 1878 and 1883 are now on view at Frost Library. These proto-yearbooks , recently digitized, offer new information on Amherst's early Black history.
Apr 3, 2024 · A high-school staffer who spoke in support of Gayle-Brissett was more blunt: “Amherst is racist, the staff is racist, and there’s a target on the back of Black people in the district.”
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 · The Men Black Men of Amherst Left Out. April 9, 2021 by Katharine Whittemore. W hen Harold Wade Jr. ’68 wrote Black Men of Amherst, he knew he likely missed including some 19th-century alumni, since he didn’t have access to the earliest student information. For the College’s Bicentennial, archivists at Frost have been digitizing the ...
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.
- Kabria Baumgartner
- 2016
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.
Join in Virtual Black Alumni Week, Monday, April 12 through Sunday, April 18! Connect with old friends and current students, join in conversations with, and lectures by, MacArthur Fellows and a legendary activist and make new connections.
