Photos celebrating 60 years of history

  • 1980 Homecoming Queen, Yvette Payne
  • First African-American athlete, Dennis Jackson
  • First African-American student, Mary Ford Holland
  • President Dr. Sparks speaks to students in Lovett Auditorium
  • A student group on campus in the 1970s
  • Congressman James Clyburn at Murray State University in 2004 where he discussed the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
  • WKMS signature board
  • WKMS signature board
  • WKMS signature board
  • WKMS signature board
  • Nancy Tyler, First African American graduate of Murray State, 1961
  • Alice Jean Davis, Black Homecoming Queen 1973

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