Black History @ Georgia Tech

This segregated restaurant was torn down & later repalced by the GT Ecommons (contemplative grove).

What year was the Office of Minority Educational Development (OMED) established?

The very first Black Graduate of Georgia Tech is...

What year was the African American Student Union (AASU) founded?

What year was OMED's Challenge Program established for pre-freshmen African American Students.

What was the original name of AASU?

What year was NSBE chartered at Georgia Tech?

The First Onyx Ball was held in what year?

The first African American woman to matriculate through & graduate from Georgia Tech.

This Black GT Graduate created the famous social media platform & newsletter known as Butter.ATL.

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr prompted students William J. Stanley, III & Haywood Solomon to create AASU.

First African American to be promoted and tenured as a full professor at Georgia Tech.

Who was the first Black Engineering Professor at Georgia Tech?

What year did the "Three Pioneers" integrate into Georgia Tech?

In 1973, Karl Webster Barnes becomes the 1st African American letterman (football/track) to graduate from GT.

The CRC was designed by GT's first two Black architecture graduates. (Bill Stanley '72 & Ivenue Love '77).

Scheller Executive MBA Graduate, James Reid, was named the first African American CIO of this large comany.

Georgia Tech's first Black female student-athlete (Basketball).

In what year was the Black Student Yearbook (Onyx) first published?

In 1966 10 African-American students enroll into to Georgia Tech. They were labled the "first surge" of Black freshmen.