Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1877 or 1879, Eugene Dickerson was the son of Wilson Dickerson and Fannie Reeves. In the 1880 Federal Census, his father is listed as a day laborer and his mother as a housekeeper. After attending the local African...
In the late 1960s, Madison College experienced two dramatic changes: it finally began to admit Black students and to allow men students to live on campus. This decade, the 1960s, is remembered by Americans as a time of grassroots protest movements led largely by young...
Born in Harrisonburg on September 28, 1927, Doris Harper Allen lived in the city for most of her life. Her memoir, The Way It Was Not The Way It Is provides a great deal of insight into the culture, society, and significant changes that surrounded and affected the...
Alumnae Hall, which sits on the main quad of James Madison University, was built in 1922. While the building has had a variety of uses since its construction, during the time that Donald L. Banks worked at Madison College, the building housed the Counseling Center....
Larry Rogers: Team Player In 1977, the same year that Madison College became James Madison University, Larry Rogers came to the school as a student athlete for the football team and played on the field that is now Bridgeforth Stadium, next to Godwin Hall. Having...
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