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Local basketball star, Ralph Sampson, Jr. (#50), played for the University of Virginia against James Madison University in this December game. Sampson attended Harrisonburg High School and became the area’s premier sports legend, appearing on the…

Pictured is Linton Townes, captain and Most Valuable Player of JMU’s men’s basketball team from 1981-1982. When Townes ended his career, he was one of only three Dukes with 1,000 points or more. After graduation, he played for the NBA and was…

A Marching Royal Duke directing his fellow bandmates during a JMU football game. Campus involvement was encouraged by various African American organizations on campus, like the Black Student Alliance among others. Participation in campus events and…

Student Johnette Henderson, an organizer of the “Hands Across JMU” event, and President Carrier admiring a poster. The poster was the first in the series of four which aimed to increase awareness of racial and ethnic concerns.

Several JMU students hold hands in front of a campus building. Part of an event to demonstrate campus unity, “Hands Across JMU” began in front of Wilson Hall and reached to Alumnae and Jackson Halls. There were over 300 participants, both students…

“Senior Hall,” was constructed in 1935, and is known today as Converse Hall. Like “Junior Hall,” a dorm hostess also resided in the Hall and oversaw building and student activities.

This postcard depicts a view of Spotswood, Sheldon, and Alumnae Halls on the State Teacher’s College campus taken sometime between 1924 and 1927, the time of Sheldon Hall’s first renovation. Both Spotswood and Sheldon were dormitories during this…

A march on campus honoring the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. The march is shown here passing Gibbons Dining Hall on their way to the Warren Campus Center where a “speakout” was held to hear community voices and opinions.

A fellow student helps another with his hood for the graduation ceremony. In the early 1990s, African Americans comprised almost 10% of the entire undergraduate student body at JMU. [Data retrieved from Office of Institutional Research,…

These students, identified as Becky Lillard and Wendy Coplen, are shown here in Chandler Hall, Suite 310. Posters are attached to the wall, instead of framed pictures, and one of these posters is devoted to alcohol. A Disney character and a…