of California, San Diego, and the author of several history books. Other diversity milestones:
Japanese student Konsukie Akiyama became the first Asian graduate in 1909.
The first women undergraduates were admitted in 1942.
James G. Jones became the first American Indian graduate in 1958. He was from the Lumbee nation.
On February 23, 1960, ten Wake Forest students joined eleven students from Winston-Salem State Teachers College (present-day Winston-Salem State University) for a sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Winston-Salem.
Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in Wait Chapel on the Wake Forest campus on October 11, 1962.
Herman Eure (biology) and Dolly McPherson (English) became the first black tenure-track professors in 1974.
The Office of Minority Affairs was formed in 1978 and later became the Office of Multicultural Affairs. Wake Forest also added an Office of Diversity & Inclusion, an LGBTQ Center, and a Women's Center.
In 1982, poet/actress/author Maya Angelou was hired as Reynolds Professor of …
