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“I know they have absolutely no idea of what it was like almost 60 years ago,” Laverne Greene-Leech says COLUMBUS, […] The post Mississippi University for Women honors first Black students with historical marker appeared first on TheGrio.
“I know they have absolutely no idea of what it was like almost 60 years ago,” Laverne Greene-Leech says COLUMBUS, […] The post Mississippi University for Women honors first Black students with historical marker appeared first on TheGrio.
The state of Mississippi placed a historical marker on the campus to honor students who integrated school in 1966.
In 1966, six young ladies took a chance. They applied to enroll at the then-all-white Mississippi State College for Women: Barbara Turner Bankhead, Jacqueline Edwards, Mary Flowers, Diane Hardy, Laverne Green Leech, and Eula Houser Thompson.
In 1966, six young ladies took a chance. They applied to enroll at the then-all-white Mississippi State College for Women: Barbara Turner Bankhead, Jacqueline Edwards, Mary Flowers, Diane Hardy, Laverne Green Leech, and Eula Houser Thompson.