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Editorial by Reverend Black, addressing the need for desegregation of educational institutions, in light of the violence that resulted when James Meredith enrolled and was accepted as the first African American in then-segregated University of...
Beeson was Trinity's first president (1869-1883). A veteran of the Confederate Army, Beeson had previously served as President of Chapel Hill College in Texas.
Bodenhamer joined the Trinity faculty in 1883 as an assistant instructor and two years later became the Johnson Professor Mathematics. Later he served as professor Greek, Bible, and astronomy and the Aston Lecturer on Theology and Homiletics. He...