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Headlines from a Athens, Georgia radio station. The underlined portion, which reads "Attorney General Cook renews plea for dismissal of suit by Atlanta negro seeking entrance to University law school", refers to Horace T. Ward's attempt to receive…

Shows Horace T. Ward in his law office

Shows Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter with one of their attorneys, Donald Holowell. Holowell, along with other attorneys Horace T. Ward and Vernon Jordan, as well as the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Constance Baker Motley, represented Holmes and…

Civil action report detailing the case of Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter against Walter Danner, the registrar of UGA

The letter discusses a meeting at the Chapel about the possibility of the University of Georgia closing

Vandiver states in his message that the acceptance of Holmes and Hunter had jeopardized the future of UGA because section 8 (d) of the Appropriations Act of 1956 limited state funding to segregated schools. This caused an outcry in the University…

Charlayne Hunter being escorted from campus following her and Hamilton Holmes' suspension from the University

Signed by more than 300 members of the UGA faculty, this document condemned the actions of the rioters as well as the lack of action by state authorities to quell the violence on campus. It also insisted that the University reinstate Holmes and…

Following the riot, members of the UGA Faculty organized nightly patrols of campus in an effort to keep the peace. This campus map shows the plan of these patrols.

Photograph of Mary Frances Early