RIT pin collection, circa 1940-2008.

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RIT pin collection, circa 1940-2008.

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Collection of pins commemorating events, awards, student life, alumni, or RIT. The RIT pin collection offers coverage and documentation of events, student life, alumni, and awards relating to RIT. Pins include: Gold Circle pins (awarded to RIT graduates of fifty years ago or more), Winter Weekend, Tiger Day, Hands Across RIT, College Union, 150th Anniversary, and student orientation.

0.6 linear feet (1 clamshell box)

RIT Library, Wallace Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8180986

RIT Library, Wallace Library

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Rochester institute of technology

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It is unclear when the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) first admitted minority students. However, it appears as though the first African American students entered the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute (renamed RIT in 1944) during the early 1900s. For instance, in 1906 Fredericka Sprague, the granddaughter of Frederick Douglass, took classes at the Institute. There are several other instances of African American students attending the school during the early 20th century as well...

Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute. Bevier Memorial Building.

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