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Integration And Athletics: Integrating The Marshall University Basketball Program, 1954-1969, George M. Reger
Integration And Athletics: Integrating The Marshall University Basketball Program, 1954-1969, George M. Reger
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
In 1954, Marshall College followed the national law that banned segregation in the school systems of the United States. The law included the integration of athletic programs. While only a small part of the process, athletic programs often presented integration on a more visible stage than the integration of classrooms.
0625: Mark Freeman Papers, 1934-1969, Marshall University Special Collections
0625: Mark Freeman Papers, 1934-1969, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
This collection contains two scrapbooks and several loose photographs documenting Mark Freeman’s personal life and time in the United States Navy in the 1950s. The green scrapbook is composed entirely of unidentified and unlabeled photographs of Freeman’s navy service, mostly of photos taken from his ship. Other notable groups of photographs in the scrapbook include photographs of women and sights in Japan. The brown scrapbook is composed of family photographs (most labelled), photographs of Freeman in Spencer, West Virginia, in the 1960s working with the West Virginia Department of Employment Security, and additional photographs of Freeman’s time in the Navy, …
0630: R. Clinton Woodson Papers, 1942, Marshall University Special Collections
0630: R. Clinton Woodson Papers, 1942, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection contains a photograph of Clinton R. Woodson as well as a plaque stating, “Sgt. R. Clinton Woodson, Camp Lee, Va.” with a United States Army crest in the center.
0636: James R. Shephard Papers, 1942-1965, Marshall University Special Collections
0636: James R. Shephard Papers, 1942-1965, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection is primarily composed of aerial reconnaissance photographs of ballistic missile bases taken during and immediately after the Cuban Missile Crisis in October and November, 1962. These photographs feature extensive captions and labels that became part of the report, ““Cuba Know, Yankee See! A Picture Story with an Object Lesson: Castro had his 10,000 words, but we got the picture.” and was used as part of a Department of Defense Special Cuba Briefing by Robert S. McNamara in February 1963. Other less significant portions of the collection include constructions reports on the Thule Air Base in Thule, Greenland (the …
0632: Dolores Imogene Dowling Papers, 1942-1994, Marshall University Special Collections
0632: Dolores Imogene Dowling Papers, 1942-1994, Marshall University Special Collections
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Huntington, West Virginia, civic leader; Second World War veteran. Papers consist primarily of Dowling’s scrapbooks and memorabilia related to her service as an army nurse with the 1st Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (M.A.S.H.) unit; included are photocopies of certificates and letters related to her civic activities and election to the Huntington Hall of Fame.