Mary Ford Holland

60 years of history

In the spring of 1955 hundreds of people chanting and yelling racial slurs stormed the gates of other universities across the South in protest of the Supreme Court’s order to the lower federal courts to require desegregation as quickly as possible. The order came as a result of Brown v. Board of Education, in which Read More

Reflecting on history

(WITH VIDEO) – Imagine waking up in the morning and going where no woman has gone before, paving the way for the future and inspiring people for ages to come. One can only imagine what was going through the head of the first black student at Murray State the first day she walked to class Read More

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