guinevak:youngblackandvegan:from notes in the hallway to name on the building. wow[Image of te
guinevak: youngblackandvegan: from notes in the hallway to name on the building. wow [Image of text reading: “Clara Belle Williams, the first black graduate of New Mexico State University. Many or [sic] her professors would not allow her inside the class room, she had to take notes from the hallway; she was also not allowed to walk with her class to get her diploma. She became a great teacher, of black students by day, and by night she taught their parents (former slaves) home economics. [S]he lived past 100, after her death, NMSU renamed the English Department building after her.” Beneath, an antique photo of a young black woman in a white dress and spectacles, not quite smiling.] -- source link