First African American Women Permitted to Live in Campus Housing

Sep. 1961

Judith Rogers (Class of 1965) and her roommate Maureen Newton (Class of 1965) moved into Metzger Hall in the Fall of 1961. 

Event Type: 
Dickinson Firsts
Policy Changes
Bibliography: 

Personal e-mail from Judy Rogers ; Oral history from 2009 Women's Studies class with Professor Amy Farrell.