In March 2012, during Ursinus College's spring break, eight students of Chaplain, Reverend Charles Rice's African American Religious Experience class, traveled to Alabama for a civil rights trip. The elective class's small size allowed for deep…
This 1953 black and white photograph shows coach Eleanor Frost Snell and student Marge Merrifield Loomis standing on an athletic field at Ursinus College. Marge is wearing her hockey uniform and is holding a field hockey stick.
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and…