A Timeline of Diversity at Bryn Mawr: Where Were We? Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going?

Jessie Redmon Fauset, a “colored girl," won a scholarship to Bryn Mawr and decided to enroll. She was allowed to attend classes for a month before President Thomas arranged for her to attend Cornell in 1901

Evelyn Jones, class of 1954 (shown here in her yearbook photo), became the first black student to reside on the Bryn Mawr College campus in 1950

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., shown with President Katharine McBride, delivered the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class of 1966

Robert Washington, Professor of Sociology, became the first black faculty member at Bryn Mawr College in 1971