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McCorkle lauded for breaking college’s color line
Layla Garms October 4, 2012 1Fifty years ago, James McCorkle stepped onto the campus of Guilford College and forever changed the course of the school’s history. Last week, the Winston-Salem native and retired educator returned to his alma mater
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WS Chronicle September 20, 2012 0In 1962, a Ghana native named Ed Reynolds became the first black full-time undergraduate student to attend Wake Forest University. On Friday, Sept. 21, Reynolds will come back to campus to mark the 50th anniversary
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