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

not right after, it must have been about three, four years after that. L: Alright well let’s go back a little bit. What made you decide to join the military? That wouldn’t have been a normal thing for an African American woman at that time, you were one of the first. What made you decide to go that

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