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This is a 1996 interview with Marguerite Laurette Harper Scott covering her childhood and her experiences at Virginia Tech as one of the first six black women at admitted in 1966. It includes the audio file and a transcript.

Johnnie Miles was one of the first black female academic faculty at Virginia Tech

This is an interview with Cheryl Butler McDonald, covering her experiences at Virginia Tech, including an audio file and a transcript.

This thesis analyzes coeducation as a process between 1914 and 1964 at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI), as it was called during the period of study. The date for women's full-time admission came in 1921, but this thesis argues that, in the…

In 2015, Special Collections was asked to bring a display of materials to the Virginia Tech Women's Weekend. As part of the display, two archivists on staff created a slideshow of women's "firsts" on campus, including images and facts.

This is the preprint of an article published in the Smithfield Review by Faith Skiles on the first two years of the Julian Burruss administration (1921-1923).

Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be inThe Bugleyearbook. For several years after they were first admitted, they produced their own yearbook, calledThe Tin Horn. Four issues of theThe Tin Hornwere…

Speech by Laura Jane Harper, "The Education of Women at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute: A Look at the Past and Present, with Predictions about the Future." It isn't clear where it was given, but it was first presented in 1962. It summarizes the…