Videos
- Benson L. Dutton, first Black alumnus selected for the distinguished alumnus award
- Betty Love Gibbs is denied the chance to try out for the cheerleading squad
- Beverly McIver receives Distinguished Alumni Fellow award
- Blondell Reynolds Brown is elected to Philadelphia City Council
- Calvin H. Waller, first colored graduate
- Calvin H. Waller, first colored student admitted to Penn State
- Charles L. Blockson helps found the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum in Philadelphia
- Charles T. Davis joins the faculty as associate professor of English
- Christian Ragland and David Adewumi face off for UPUA president
- Coquese Washington is named head coach of the Penn State women’s basketball program
- Cynthia Baldwin, first African American president of the Penn State Alumni Association
- Darryl Daisey compiled the first draft of the Penn State University African American Chronicles
- Dave Alston, first Negro football player, dies
- Eddie N. Moore, Jr., 12th president of Virginia State University
- Eugene Richardson completes training at Tuskegee Army Air Field
- First interracial football game is played at the Cotton Bowl
- Former Black Caucus president Tiffanie Lewis graduates
- Frederick B. Phillips founded the Progressive Life Center for African-centered human services
- Frederick E. Douglass Association is established at Penn State
- Grace Hampton is appointed vice-provost of Penn State
- Guion S. Bluford, first African American in space
- Harold E. Cheatham is recognized as a pioneer in counseling and development by the APA
- James B. Stewart, first vice-provost of underrepresented groups
- John Amaechi, former basketball player, reveals his homosexuality
- John Settle Graduates from Penn State
- Kenneth C. Frazier becomes the CEO and president of Merck & Co.
- Lincoln Hall becomes the center of colored life at Penn State
- Louis A. Ivey reports as the first Negro officer aboard the USS New Jersey
- Marie Dutton Brown graduates and goes on to be a major player in the publishing industry
- Presidential candidate Barack Obama visits Penn State
- Rohan Murphy, double amputee, debuts for the Penn State wrestling team
- Seth Williams is elected president of the Undergraduate Student Government
- Spike Lee acquires film rights to Ronald Mallett’s script on time travel
- Students lower flag to commemorate assassination of Malcolm X
- Thelma Price is named assistant vice president for student affairs
- United Soul Ensemble becomes a gospel choir
- Vincent and Vance Moss, surgeons in the Army, are selected by ABC as “Persons of the Weekâ€
- Wally Triplett, first Negro starter for the Varsity football team
- William ‘Rick’ Collins Becomes President of the Douglass Association
