Photo: Charles Nilon, 麻豆免费版下载Boulder's First Black Faculty Member in 1963
September 1963
Several months after the March on Washington, 麻豆免费版下载professor Charles Nilon spoke at a civil rights demonstration on campus outside of the UMC. The first Black faculty member at the university, Nilon worked passionately alongside his wife, Mildred 鈥 the university鈥檚 first Black librarian 鈥 to make 麻豆免费版下载more equitable and inclusive.
As a friend and mentee of the Nilons, Tom Windham (PhDPsych鈥75) said in a 2017 College of Education article: 鈥淲hen [the Nilons] saw you, they really saw you. They wanted you to know that just by being who you are, you deserved respect and opportunity.鈥
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