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1916
The Maryland Agricultural College quickly attracts students from around the world. Early international students include Pastor A. Cooke of Panama (1871-72), A.P. Menocal of Cuba (1875-76), Min Chow Ho of Korea (1887-88), and Pyon Su of Korea (1887-88).
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1917 - 1919
The 1917 Reveille, as the yearbook was known, record Elizabeth Hook and Charlotte Vaux as the first women to matriculate officially at the University of Maryland in 1916. Miss Hook received a B.S. in entomology in 1920 and Miss Vaux a two-year degree in agriculture in 1918. Evidence recently uncovered in the files of President Harry Clifton Byrd, identifies an earlier bachelor’s degree recipient, Grace B. Holmes in 1919 (commencement records). Unlike Miss Hook, Miss Holmes did not spend her entire career in residence at the university, and therefore, Miss Hook is usually recognized as the first female to graduate with a four-year degree. The 1917 commencement program lists Emma S. Jacobs as receiving a master of science degree.
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1919 - 1920
The first female faculty member at the University was Agnes Saunders, is professor of Home Economics and acting Dean of the School of Home economics for the academic year.
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President Clifton Byrd
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1935 - 1954
University of Maryland President Harry Clifton “Curly” Byrd fought perhaps harder than anyone in the state for the funding of black colleges. Yet at the same time, those efforts were largely seen as Byrd’s way of ensuring that the College Park campus remained segregated—“make the branch campuses adequate and maybe the Negroes could be content.”
He was a segregationist and an integrationist at the same time, a politician trying to please everyone.
By the time Byrd left to run for governor, the university is forced to integrate by repeated legal challenges, but despite the 1954
Brown v. Board of Education ruling, it remains largely devoid of Blacks through the early 1970s. Left in place is a system a 1993 university report would call, “at best neglectful, at worst hostile” toward Blacks.
Read a longer article provided by the
The Diamondback.
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President Elkins
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1954 - 1970
University of Maryland President Wilson H. Elkins took the university’s helm upon the departure of Harry "Curly" Byrd. That put the responsibility to integrate—and simultaneously prop up the university’s academic standing—into his hands.
An experienced educator and Rhodes Scholar, Elkins called black people "Negrahs" in his Southern drawl and was deeply troubled by student "radicalism."(The Diamondback, Feb 22, 2005)
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