Hunter and Holmes, UGA

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Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes, the first Black students to enroll at the University of Georgia, are pictured here at the end of their first day on campus in January 1961.

Courtesy of Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Hunter and Holmes, UGA

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