Laura Marie Leary, ECCs first African American student, Senior portrait 1966
- Title
- Laura Marie Leary, ECCs first African American student, Senior portrait 1966
- Description
- The first African American student was admitted to East Carolina College undergraduate program in 1962. Laura Marie Leary, selected by Leo Jenkins, enrolled that year and went on to graduate in 1966 with a BS in Business Administration—becoming the college's first African American undergraduate graduate.
- Contributor
- Buccaneer
- Coverage
- Greenville, North Carolina-East Carolina University-Vanceboro, North Carolina
- Date
- 1966
- Source
- East Carolina Digital Collections
- https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/10270
- https://collections.ecu.edu/os/s/library-exhibits/page/civil-rights-and-growth-1966-1985
- Subject
- East Carolina University-Greenville-North Carolina-civil rights-integration
- Original Format
- photograph
- Bibliographic Citation
- Laura Marie Leary. 1966. UA50.01.02.14. East Carolina University Digital Collections.
- Item sets
- 1960s Counterculture NC
- Site pages
- The Sixties Down South
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