Where Am I? (July 2019)

Molly Grieco

Congratulations to Augustus Huang (Comm ’19) who won a $25 gift card to the UVA Bookstore by correctly answering that this is the walkway between Bryan Hall and the Amphitheatre.

Highlights

Not Without a Fight: The lawsuit that got UVA to coeducate

Before granting women full admission to the College, UVA needed a little persuading—in the form of a federal lawsuit.

A Struggle for Equality: Women in the workplace at UVA

Before women came for college, they came for careers, often in support roles.

Game, set, Mary Slaughter

How one woman became the ACC’s first female varsity athlete—on the men’s tennis team.

How women found their place at Mr. Jefferson’s University

Women talk about what it was like in those early years of coeducation.