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Sankofa TravelHer on Twitter: "On this day in 1994, Clara Belle Williams, the first African-American graduate of New Mexico State University, passed away. Her college professors did not allow her inside the
13 WMAZ - Clara Belle Drisdale Williams made history in 1937 when she became the first African American to graduate from the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (now NMSU).
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