Media Coverage

No Easy Road
Historical piece on Vanderbilt’s first African American undergraduates

The Long Road Home
Feature profile on Perry Wallace:

Days of Thunder
Cover story on James Lawson and “The Lawson Affair” 

Family Inheritance: From Reconstruction to post-civil rights, political activism has been bred in my bones
Essay by Sheryll Cashin, BE’84, from her book The Agitator’s Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family:

Tommie Morton-Young Receives Peabody Award
Story on Tommie Morton-Young, who earned her master of arts degree in library science in 1955, becoming the first African American to graduate from George Peabody College for Teachers

Coming of Age: How a product of the segregated South became an advocate for change
Essay by Dr. John Sergent, BA’63, MD’66, on his recollections of Vanderbilt’s integration:

First African-American student left many legacies

Transformers
How Key Decisions About Racial Integration Moved Vanderbilt From an Institution of Regional Focus to One With a National Scope of Interests and Thinking

The Spire, Fall 2004