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Article: News and Views: University of Virginia; Will America's Great Cheerleader for Racial Diversity in Higher Education Lose Its Leadership Position?
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- The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
- Article date:
- January 31, 2000
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Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The
01-31-2000
News and Views: University of Virginia; Will America's Great Cheerleader
for Racial Diversity in Higher Education Lose Its Leadership Position?
For the institution's first 125 years, the only blacks on the campus of the
University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville were slaves who built many
campus buildings and, later, blacks who served as menial workers such as
janitors and gardeners. Finally, in 1955, UVA finally admitted its first
black students. In 1959 Robert Bland became the first African American to
graduate from UVA.
Over the next several decades the university was slow to embrace racial
diversity. By 1988 African-American students ...