Early Black Women Students at Yale: Lunchtime Webinar

The lives and careers of Black women who attended Yale from the 1910s through 1940 will be surveyed by Jennifer Coggins, Community Engagement Archivist for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, in a lunchtime webinar for the New Haven Museum (NHM). “Early Black Women Students at Yale,” will be presented onWednesday, March 5, 2025, at 12:30 p.m. Register here.

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The free NH250 event will be recorded and available via New Haven Museum YouTube and social media. It will be the third lecture in the new NHM webinar series, “Voices of Legacy: Lunchtime Conversations on Early Black Women.”

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Though Yale College did not become coeducational until 1969, the university’s graduate school and many of its professional schools accepted women much earlier. A significant number of Black women, many of them from New Haven, attended Yale in these early years. During her webinar, Coggins  will discuss the lives and careers of Black women who attended Yale through 1940 and are featured in Beinecke Library’s anticipated online resource, “Shining Light on Truth: Early Black Students at Yale.” 

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