Campus Buildings
This Center at Clemson is named for the school's first two Black students.
What is the Harvey and Lucinda Gantt Multicultural Center?
This soul singer from Georgia performed at Clemson for Homecoming in 1962.
Who is Ray Charles?
The outdoor site where some of the first Black wage workers were employed at Clemson College.
What is the farm.
The first Black student-athlete on Clemson's men's basketball team.
Who is Craig Mobley?
This Clemson Ph.D. graduate in Rhetoric, Communication, and Information Design became a central figure in campus protest movements, publishing the spoken word poem See The Stripes in 2014. His work critiques Clemson’s refusal to confront its racist past, using the tiger’s stripes as a metaphor for marginalized experiences.
Who is Dr. A.D. Carson?
This major student protest happened in the administration building in 2016.
What is the Sikes Sit-in?
This jazz group performed at Clemson for the military ball in 1955.
Who are Duke Ellington and his orchestra?
This man served as a coach driver and caretaker for Thomas Green Clemson’s horses before working as a water boy during the construction of Clemson College for 60 cents a day. His expertise in horsemanship led him to train a horse that responded to military commands, and even into the 1960s, he was seen riding through town in a horse-drawn wagon.
Who is Bill Greenlee?
The first Black student-athlete on Clemson's football team.
Who is Marion Reeves?
The Black student who desegregated Clemson.
Who is Harvey Gantt?
Black Clemson students supported renewed demands to rename which building on campus after the murder of George Floyd?
What is Tillman Hall?
The sacred site on campus where Black musicians sometimes performed at Clemson.
What is the chapel in Old Man/Tillman Hall.
Black Clemson mess hall workers lived in this segregated area near the cemetery on campus.
What is The Bottoms?
The first Black student-athlete on Clemson's women's basketball team.
Who is Patsy “Cookie” Blakney?
The first Black female student at Clemson.
Who is Lucinda Brawley?
They built Clemson's earliest buildings.
Who are mostly Black convict laborers?
Civil rights activist, poet, singer, and author who visited Clemson on October 3, 1990, to deliver a speech that focused on education and intersectionality.
Who is Maya Angelou?
The mess hall chef who also provided an entertainment venue for Black teenagers in the local community.
Who is Tom Littlejohn?
The first Black student-athlete on Clemson's track and field team.
Who is Wayne Jenkins?
One of the first four African American women admitted to Clemson University during the Civil Rights Movement, this South Carolina native. After earning her degree in Education/History, she dedicated 36 years to public education at D.W. Daniel High School, later working in adult education and serving on various community boards.
Who is LaVerne Williams-White?
The source of the stones used for the foundation of Hardin Hall.
What are the Fort Hill slave quarters?
The first year Black musicians performed at Clemson.
What is 1920?
Clemson's first Black professor.
Who is Regina Thompson?
Football player who followed in the footsteps of Marion Reeves. He was born in Laurens, SC but established himself as a multi-sport athlete in nearby Seneca, SC. He made history as Clemson’s first Black All-Atlantic-Coast- Conference and All-American football player.
Who is Bennie Lee Cunnigham?
The first Black student organization at Clemson.
What is the Student League for Black Identity?