Helen Turner Watson
UConn nursing professor and one of the first African American women to serve in the U.S. Navy.
UConn nursing professor and one of the first African American women to serve in the U.S. Navy.
The third African American to serve as a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, Justice Harper cast the deciding vote to legalize same-sex marriage in the state.
Edwina Whitney (1868–1970) was the second and longest-serving head librarian at UConn, then Connecticut Agricultural College. Hired in 1900, she first worked in a cramped two-room library lit by kerosene lamps.
In 1934 UConn students rallied against racism shown UConn’s first Black basketball player.