Tommy Chambers, one of the first African American students to enroll at Arlington State College

Creator

George Smith

Preview

Identifier

10022642

Description

Tommy Chambers, 18, on the Arlington State College campus to register for classes for the fall term. Chambers was among the first African American students to enroll at Arlington State College following a decision by President Jack R. Woolf to integrate the school on July 10, 1962.

Archival Date

1962-09-12

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6 09/13/1962 #4650

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

Rights

Rights held by The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections. Any use of content downloaded or printed from this page is limited to non-commercial personal or educational use, including fair use as directed by U.S. copyright laws. For more information or for reproduction requests, please contact UTA Special Collections by emailing spcoref@uta.edu.

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Subjects

Students; Universities & colleges