The first colored women in Ettrick to vote in 1920 were all members of the VSU faculty.
Reading from left to right on the first row; Mary Branch, Anna Lindsay, Edna Colson, Edwina Wright, Johnella Frazer (Jackson), and Nannie Nichols; on the back row, from left to right; Eva Conner, Evie Carpenter (Spencer), and Odelle Green.
Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali spoke out publicly against the Vietnam War in 1967.