Rice commemorates the 50th anniversary of desegregation and celebrates black undergraduate life on campus.
The following timeline and oral histories explore the steps that led up to Rice’s desegregation and feature the voices of black alumni who lived that experience.
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1980 – 1995 My dad wanted to go to Rice in the 1950s but wasn’t allowed. He said that since I got into Rice, I should attend. My most significant friendships have been from my experiences at Rice…
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AN ALUMNI COMMUNITY GROWS: 1996 – PRESENT
The Association of Rice University Black Alumni (ARUBA) is established. The volunteer-led alumni group strives to stimulate intellectual and social participation…
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CHARLES FREEMAN III
Freeman was the first black male undergraduate to be admitted to Rice University. Born in Harlem to Charles Edward and Ruby Freeman, a schoolteacher and a nurse, respectively, he grew up in Port Arthur, Texas…
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TED HENDERSON
The early 1960s was a heady time for kids like Ted Henderson ’70. Space Age competition between the Soviet Union and the United States…
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LINDA FAYE WILLIAMS
“I knew that when my sister went to Rice, it was the beginning of something big,” said Susan Williams Patterson ’77…
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