Description
Photograph of Ford Greene, Lawrence Michael Williams, and Ralph Long Jr. (left to right) standing in a road. These students integrated the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia in 1961. Georgia Tech was the first institution of higher education in the South to integrate peacefully and without a court order.Record Contributed By
New Georgia EncyclopediaRecord Harvested From
Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African American College Students
- African American Men
- African Americans
- Atlanta
- Civil Rights
- College Integration
- College Students
- Georgia
- Georgia Institute Of Technology
- Greene, Ford
- Long, Ralph
- Men
- Roads
- Segregation
- Segregation In Education
- Universities
- Universities And Colleges
- Williams, Lawrence