The Road to Desegregation at Duke

Acknowledgements and Sources

“The Road to Desegregation at Duke” was curated by Valerie Gillispie, University Archivist, and Maureen McCormick, Isobel Craven Drill Intern. A special thank you to Meg Brown, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation Exhibits Coordinator, for her guidance, Jennifer Blomberg for her work in installing the exhibit, and to Mark Zupan for his graphic design of the banners and labels. This exhibit is part of “Celebrating the Past, Charting the Future: Commemorating 50 Years of Black Students at Duke,” a campus-wide retrospective.

All materials were drawn from the University Archives except the following:

  • Blueprint of West Campus Union courtesy of Facilities Management Department.
  • Photograph of Durham protest from the Robert Preston Harriss Papers, Rubenstein Library.

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