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?
Sharecropper at Fort Hill Plantation in 1867 and 1868 who became a deacon at Abel Baptist Church, married Delia Dupree, and is the ancestor of many local families.
Who is Cato Sherman?
The first Black student-athlete on Clemson's men's basketball team.
Who is Craig Mobley?
The year Clemson was desegregated.
What is 1963?
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?
Black agricultural agents in Clemson's cooperative extension program worked from this South Carolina higher education institution prior to desegregation.
South Carolina State University.
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.
Pioneering Black female historical archaeologist responsible for conducting research on the role of convicted laborers on Clemson’s development, shedding light on the burial sites of enslaved Africans & convicted laborers at Fort Hill, and leading the Fort Hill internship.
Who is Carrel Cowan-Ricks?
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?
Room inside of the Hendrix Student Center where the Alpha Kappa Psi Professional Business Fraternity, Inc., hosted ‘Free Speech: A Social Injustice Dialogue’ in December 2014 following the murders of Eric Garner and Mike Brown
What is McKissick Theater?
This famous male and female duo performed R&B, soul, blues, and rock during their concert at Clemson in 1970.
Who are Ike and Tina Turner?
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?
The first Black student to earn a PhD at Clemson.
Who is James Bostic Jr.?
The source of the stones used for the foundation of Hardin Hall.
What are the Fort Hill slave quarters?
R&B/doo-wop group from the 1950s and 1960s that returned to Clemson, with much fanfare, to play for the Spring Hop 1963.
Who is Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs?
The first Black woman to become a tenured professor at Clemson University. She was a member of the College of Education faculty after earning her Bachelor’s in reading education at Clemson in 1976.
Who is Dr. Margaree Seawright Crosby?
The first Black trainer for the Clemson football team.
Who is Chappie Johnson?
SC’s first Black federal judge and the lawyer responsible for helping Harvey Gantt integrate into Clemson University.
Who is Matthew Perry?