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Desegregation of East Tennessee State College (University) 1956 and 1958

Desegregation of East Tennessee State College (University) 1956 and 1958 is a Tennessee historical marker in Washington County.

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In January 1956, Eugene Caruthers, a teacher a Langston High School in Johnson City, became the first black student enrolled in East Tennessee State College's graduate program. In August 1958, Elizabeth Watkins Crawford, Clarence McKinney, George L. Nichols, and Mary Luellen Owens Wagner enrolled as the college's first black undergraduates. All were graduates of Langston High School. ETSC's undergraduate program was one of the state's first public institutions of higher education to desegregate, notably without incident.

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1776 · Map Of North And South Carolina With Their Indian Frontiers. (Northern Section) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1891 · Roan Mountain, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1894 · Roan Mountain, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Gen. map VII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1904 · Roan Mountain, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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