Indian, I-I don’t know, uh. At-at any rate, he was a man of color. Haha. L: Mmhm. J: And…but he was the only person there, there were no other African Americans who were teaching there and um…I accepted uh..I uh applied after being in invited to join the faculty there by this, hehe, by this Dr. Jennings

Lancaster County Historical Society African-American Veterans Oral History Project Interviewer: Carole LeFever Interviewee: Wilkerson, Ruby and Spencer Location: Home of the Wilkersons Subject: Military experiences Date of Interview: February 13, 2006 Transcription Date: February 23, 2009

started there then as a sophomore really. L: Aren’t you one of the first African Americans on that campus? B: Yes. At the time I got started at F&M, uh, there were there local African Americans on campus. Uh, Sumner [Bohee] had started a year before. Grant [Miens] and I had started at the same time, about

persons to get it started. Um, we had set up um a nice club, and there was also a bar put in for the members to um, have libations if they wanted it. And of course, we used the um, the Elks whenever we had a ball or anything like that because the building we had was too small, so um hopefully you’ll see