Black Domers

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Black Domers tells the compelling story of racial integration at the University of Notre Dame in the post–World War II era. In a series of seventy-five essays, beginning with the first African-American to graduate from Notre Dame in 1947 to a member of the class of 2017 who also served as student body president, we can trace the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of the African-American experience at Notre Dame through seven decades.

Don Wycliff and David Krashna’s book is a revised edition of a 2014 publication. With a few exceptions, the stories of these graduates are told in their own words, in the form of essays on their experiences at Notre Dame. The range of these experiences is broad; joys and opportunities, but also hardships and obstacles, are recounted. Notable among several themes emerging from these essays is the importance of leadership from the top in successfully bringing African-Americans into the student body and enabling them to become fully accepted, fully contributing members of the Notre Dame community. The late Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of the university from 1952 to 1987, played an indispensable role in this regard and also wrote the foreword to the book.

This book will be an invaluable resource for Notre Dame graduates, especially those belonging to African-American and other minority groups, specialists in race and diversity in higher education, civil rights historians, and specialists in race relations.

Sujets

• Civil Rights
• HISTORY
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• EDUCATION
• Histoire
• Mensajería instantánea
• Our Lady
• Aftermath of World War II
• Notre Dame
• Civil and political rights
• African American
• United States
• KS
• Black
• IL
• ND
• IN
• NE
• OH
• MN
• SD
• MO
• MI

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 15 août 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780268102524
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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BLACK DOMERS
BLACK
DOMERS
African-American Students at Notre Dame in Their Own Words
Edited by
D ON W YCLIFF AND D AVID K RASHNA
Foreword by
R EV . T HEODORE M. H ESBURGH , CSC
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS NOTRE DAME, INDIANA
University of Notre Dame Press Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 www.undpress.nd.edu All Rights Reserved
Copyright 2017 by University of Notre Dame
Published in the United States of America
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017024222
ISBN 9780268102524
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CONTENTS
Prefaces
Foreword: Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC
Remarks: Rev. Edward A. Malloy, CSC
Remarks: Rev. John I. Jenkins, CSC
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER 1. The 1940s and 1950s
Frazier L. Thompson*, Class of 1947
Clyde Jupiter, Class of 1951 MS
Alton A. Adams Jr., Class of 1952
Joseph Bertrand*, Class of 1954
Wayne Edmonds, Class of 1956
Goldie Ivory*, Class of 1956 MA
Lemuel Joyner, Classes of 1957, 1969 MFA
Jerome Gary Cooper, Class of 1958
Aubrey Lewis*, Class of 1958
Booker Rice, Class of 1958
Thomas Hawkins, Class of 1959
CHAPTER 2. The 1960s
Benjamin F. Finley, Class of 1960
Percy A. Pierre, Classes of 1961, 1963 MA
Hosea Alexander, Class of 1962
Algernon Johnson Jay Cooper, Class of 1966
Ronald A. Homer, Class of 1968
Paul Ramsey, Class of 1968
Bill Hurd, Class of 1969
Don Wycliff, Class of 1969
CHAPTER 3. The 1970s
Arthur C. McFarland, Class of 1970
Francis X. Taylor, Classes of 1970, 1974 MA
David Krashna, Class of 1971
John Banks-Brooks, Class of 1972
Ronald J. Irvine*, Class of 1973
Gail Antionette King, Class of 1975
Ann Claire Williams, Class of 1975 Law
Bonita Bradshaw, Class of 1977
Joya C. DeFoor, Class of 1977
Manny Grace, Class of 1979
Richard Ryans, Class of 1979
CHAPTER 4. The 1980s
Phyllis Washington Stone, Class of 1980
Ramona Maria Payne, Class of 1980
Joli Cooper-Nelson, Class of 1981
Kevin Hawkins, Class of 1981
Jan Sanders McWilliams, Class of 1983
Gina V. Shropshire, Class of 1983
Margret LaChappelle Sonnier, Class of 1984
Eleanor M. Walker, Class of 1984
Rosalind Gaffney, Class of 1985
Melvin Tardy, Classes of 1986, 1990 MBA
Byron O. Spruell, Classes of 1987, 1989 MBA
Lisa Marie Boykin, Class of 1988
Martin Rodgers, Class of 1988
CHAPTER 5. The 1990s
Iris Outlaw, Class of 1990 MSA
Rod West, Class of 1990
Lisa Robinson Honor , Class of 1992
Jubba Seyyid, Class of 1992
Michele D. Steele, Class of 1992
Azikiwe T. Chandler, Class of 1994
Frank McGehee, Class of 1994
LeShane Saddler, Class of 1994
Christine Ashford Swanson, Class of 1994
Owen Harold Michael Smith, Class of 1995
Rochelle Valsaint, Class of 1995
Rowan Richards, Class of 1996
Tanya Walker, Class of 1997
Reggie Brooks, Class of 1999
Danielle Green, Class of 1999
CHAPTER 6. The 2000s
Carol D. Anderson, Class of 2000 MBA
Ava R. Williams, Class of 2003
Jamie L. Austin, Class of 2004
Arienne Thompson, Class of 2004
Jetaun Davis, Class of 2005
Shawtina Ferguson, Classes of 2005, 2008 Law
Justin Tuck, Class of 2005
Rhea Boyd, Class of 2006
Lauran Williamson Tuck, Class of 2006
CHAPTER 7. The 2010s
Katie Washington Cole, Class of 2010
Craig A. Ford Jr., Class of 2010
Brittany Suggs, Class of 2012
Olevia Boykin, Class of 2014
Tai-ler TJ Jones, Class of 2014
Denise Umubyeyi, Class of 2014
Corey Robinson, Class of 2017
Index
* Deceased
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
With this updated edition, Black Domers comes to what the editors always believed was its natural home: the University of Notre Dame Press. The story of how African-Americans came to be part of the Fighting Irish is a tribute to Notre Dame s Catholic Christian ideals and deserved to be published by its own press. We are grateful to Stephen Wrinn, director of the Notre Dame Press, for his support of and commitment to this project.
Likewise, we thank Jim Langford, Class of 1959, whose Corby Books published our first edition in 2014. Jim was able to do then what an academic press could not: take a volume produced on a tight deadline, getting it into print and ready for sale only three months after receiving the manuscript.
There have been some noteworthy changes at Notre Dame and among our contributors since the first edition.
Most notably, Father Ted Hesburgh died, marking the end of an era of unparalleled progress at Notre Dame and in American social and political history. Black Domers co-editor David Krashna retired as a superior court judge. And Ron Irvine, one of our essayists, died unexpectedly. Not only was Ron a contributor to this book; he also was one of its most active promoters.
When the first edition was published, David Krashna was the only African-American ever to have been elected Notre Dame s student body president. In 2016, he became the first of two, when Corey Robinson, Class of 2017, was elected to the position. We are pleased that Corey, along with half a dozen others, have added theirs to this compilation of Notre Dame stories told from the perspective of her African-American students.
Aside from those few exceptions, the accounts that follow were written in late 2013 for publication in the first edition of Black Domers . As a result, there are references to events and experiences that may now seem dated. We have chosen not to attempt to update or revise these references, but simply to ask readers to recognize that some situations, events, and even writers opinions may have changed between then and now.
Readers should also note that four essays in the first chapter were not written by the Domers themselves because they had died by the time the first edition was being assembled. The profiles of Frazier Thompson, Joseph Bertrand, Goldie Ivory, and Aubrey Lewis were written by volume editor Don Wycliff.
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
This volume is a labor of love and celebration. Love for the hallowed spot of ground in northern Indiana that is the Notre Dame campus. Love for the community of scholars who inhabit that campus and pursue knowledge and wisdom and holiness there. Love for the spirit that infuses that community and that campus, the spirit of Notre Dame.
And the celebration? This year, 2014, is the seventieth since the first African-American student arrived on that campus and became a member of that community. His name was Frazier L. Thompson. A Philadelphian, he came to Notre Dame as part of the United States Navy s V-12 program to produce officers for service in World War II. The war ended in 1945, and Thompson stayed on at Notre Dame, earning varsity letters in track as he worked his way toward a degree in preprofessional studies. He graduated in June 1947.
In the seven decades since Thompson s arrival, the number of African-Americans among the Fighting Irish has grown from one to hundreds. They have been student body president, valedictorian, Heisman Trophy winner. They quarterbacked the football team to its last national championship and to the threshold of two other championships. They have broadened and deepened the educational experiences of all at Notre Dame by bringing their experiences and perspectives as African-Americans to her classrooms, dormitories, teams, clubs, and religious life.
In the pages that follow, the stories of seventy of these black daughters and sons of Notre Dame are related: how they came to the university; how they survived and thrived-or didn t; how their Notre Dame experiences have affected their lives since graduation.
Not all of these stories are happy. For many black Domers, Notre Dame was a hard place to be; they felt racially and culturally isolated, and sometimes experienced garden variety racism. And yet all of these stuck it out, earned their degrees, and went on to lives of success and, in many cases, great distinction.
This book is the brainchild of one of those seventy, co-editor David M. Krashna, Class of 1971. During his senior year, Krashna was Notre Dame s first, and still its only, black student body president. He went on to the law school at the University of California at Berkeley. He now is a superior court judge in Alameda County, California.
The other co-editor, Don Wycliff, graduated from Notre Dame in 1969 and went to graduate school in political science at the University of Chicago. While there he discovered his true vocation, journalism. He spent thirty-five years in the newspaper business, including five as a member of the editorial board of the New York Times and nearly ten as editorial page editor of the Chicago Tribune . The last six years of his working life he taught journalism at Loyola University Chicago. Five of his family members have followed him to Notre Dame. He and his youngest brother, Brian Wycliff, Class of 1985, have endowed a scholarship at the university in their parents names.
Those whose stories are told here were selected from among almost 250 candidates nominated by members of the Black Alumni of Notre Dame and Notre Dame staff members with deep institutional knowledge. Especially noteworthy among the latter are M