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Reginald Yancey became the first black faculty member at Washington and Lee in 1977. This photograph is of Yancey and his Accounting Department colleagues.

After the withdrawal of former EC president Hugh Finkelstein, the EC faced a decision they had never prepared for. At the time of Finkelstein’s withdrawal, there was no procedure concerning filling a vacancy for EC president, introducing weeks of…

SABU poses for the 1983 Calyx Yearbook Photo.

Dana Bolden '89, then a sophomore journalism major, founded a minority recruitment group with fellow sophomore Tom Brickel. Students are working to attract qualified minority students to W&L while also working to invite non-minority students to…

This February 1964 issue of the Ring-tum Phi is replete with topics covering desegregation at Washington and Lee and the nation at large. In this one issue alone, the Ring-tum Phi covers the Hampton Institute visit, covering the first black students…

History would be derived of truth if every story had but one side. In this Ring-tum Phi article, the leaders on the Student Activities Board (SAB) struggle to come up with a conclusion about how the SAB was “saved.” One opinion article reads, “The…

Ring-tum Phi journalist Sarah Murray writes on the official African-American studies program at Washington and Lee, in response to a request made from the Black Female Alliance.

The Shenandoah Bureau, now an obsolete newspaper, reported in several instances on the treatment of black students at Washington and Lee. In this article, journalist Steve Pockbass examines the frustration of black students, interviewing a plethora…

A celebration black life, achievement and history began in 1926 when Dr. Carter Woodson declared that the second week in February would be known as Black History Week. SABU continues on this tradition by planning a week long of activities that will…

The members of SABU created a brochure used by University admissions as recruitment material. The pamphlet exhibits fictive kinships within the text, highlighting the community within the members of SABU and a general closeness. Before the academic…