“I am glad I was accepted.”
-- Edward O.
Diggs, First African American admitted to the University of North
Carolina, after learning of his acceptance by the UNC medical school,
April 24, 1951
Source: The News
and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), April 25, 1951. In University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill clippings, North Carolina Collection,
p. 4205.