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Lemon Hall & Carroll F. S. Hardy Hall, Constructed 2004-2006

By Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries
These two buildings, originally named Jamestown North and Jamestown South, are the first buildings on William & Mary's campus to be named after African-American individuals. The rededication ceremony took place in the Fall of 2016. Lemon Hall…

Cary Field

By Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

A year after Janet, Karen, and Lynn began their studies at the university, Warren Winston began his college football career at William & Mary in 1968. He was the university's first African American scholarship athlete, and the first African…

Washington Hall

By Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.
In the mid-twentieth century, Washington Hall was the home of William & Mary's education courses. This is where, during the summer of 1951, Hulon Willis Sr. began his master's degree and became the first African American to attend…

James Blair Hall

By Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Over the years the law school has had many homes. While Edward August Travis '54 and Miriam Carter attended, the program was housed in James Blair Hall. Though Edward August Travis began his studies a few months after the first African American…

Thomas Jefferson Statue

By Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries
The statue of Thomas Jefferson was a gift from University of Virginia in 1992. Jefferson was a student at the university from 1760-1762 and his drawings of the Wren building aided the university in its rebuilding after one of its several fires.…

Jefferson Hall, Constructed 1921

By Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.
In the Fall of 1967 Janet Brown, Lynn Briley and Karen Ely began their freshmen year at William & Mary. They lived together in the newly renovated basement of Jefferson Hall. Unbeknownst to them, that Fall they became the first African American…

The Bray School

By Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.
The Bray School was run in the Dudley Diggs House and was originally located where Brown Hall stands today. The Bray School, which was named after Reverend Thomas Bray and operated by Anne Wager, was created "for the instruction of Negro…
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