A new database lists the names and years of attendance of every African American student who enrolled at the University between 1853-1956. It features anecdotes, autobiographies, and biographies — and reveals some significant family legacies.

An African-American student of the 1920s left a vivid memoir of his years in a semi-segregated Ann Arbor.

U-M’s first black homecoming queen remembers her reign, five decades after relinquishing her crown.