On January 9, 1961 two black students, Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter, entered the University of Georgia campus to register for classes. Their registration was the end of a long court battle to integrate the university that began a decade earlier when another student, Horace Ward, tried to gain admission into the law school. Holmes and Hunter were represented by an NAACP law team, as was Ward, who earned his law degree from a different university. Continue reading UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA DESEGREGATION RIOT (1961)