“The 1960s: The Concerts That Helped Desegregate ECU” by Our State magazine

Dave Brubeck Quartet photograph, 1963, page 354. East Carolina Yearbooks, Buccaneer. UA50-01. https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/15314

Our State magazine recently published an article, “The 1960s: The Concerts That Helped Desegregate ECU”, about performances by African American musicians at East Carolina during the late 1950s and 1960s and how these performances helped shift the school’s cultural attitudes towards race.  The article features materials from East Carolina’s University Archives.  For more information on African American musicians that played at East Carolina as well as the history of the civil rights movement on campus, see:

• Heritage Hall’s entry on Music and Desegregation in the 1960s
• Tearing Down the Wall: Desegregation at East Carolina University timeline
• Digital Collections–
  • Digitized materials from the Records of Leo Warren Jenkins, UA02-06
  • East Carolina Yearbooks
  • East Carolinian student newspaper
  • Fountainhead student newspaper
• Records of John Decatur Messick, UA02-05