Professor Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke, an emerita member of Duke University's Board of Trustees and former provost at the University of the District of Columbia, was one of the first five African-American students to take classes at Duke University. Now Duke University has announced a nine-month university-wide commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the racial integration of its campus. "Celebrating the Past, Charting the Future: Commemorating 50 Years of Black Students at Duke” will begin in January 2013 with a reception at the Nasher Museum of Art.

Read more in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, "Duke University to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Its Racial Integration"