<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/stories/recent-grad-explores-the-experiences-of-the-first-black-women-on-campus.html" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>06/14/2021</pubDate><title>Uncovered History: Recent Grad Explores the Experiences of the First Black Women on Campus</title><description>The year 1969 was a groundbreaking one at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. It was the year that the institution became co-educational, and the first cohort of female first-year students stepped foot...American studies grad explores F&amp;M's history of co-education and the presence of Black women on campus.</description><author>Alicia Morrissey</author><image><img src="/uploads/files/422201284738206310-20210330-140223.0.163.2919.1758.full.jpg" alt="Mizan (Roberta) Kirby-Nunes 73, the only Black woman to graduate that year"/></image><image-caption/><tags><tag>Alumni</tag><tag>American Studies</tag><tag>Brooks College House</tag><tag>Giving</tag><tag>History</tag><tag>Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies</tag></tags></item>