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Interviewer Name
Marcus Williams (Class of 2021)
Interview Date
11-9-2019
Interview Location
Brunswick, Maine
Document Type
Interview
Abstract
Carroy Cuf Ferguson ‘68 talks about being offered a free ride to Bowdoin and deciding between Bowdoin and Morehouse College. He shares stories about growing up in the segregated South and having near zero contact with whites, having to be bussed across town to attend high school despite living a block away from an all-white high school. He talks about being the first student of color to be admitted into the fraternity Sigma Nu, which had a discriminatory clause in it forbidding students of color from joining, and what it was like to fight that clause with his fraternity brothers. Ferguson shares stories about how it felt to have the “weight of [his] race on his shoulders), navigating Bowdoin in the mid- to late- sixties, and the pressures that came with that.
Unique ID
AFAM50OH016
Recommended Citation
Ferguson, Carroy, "Interview with Carroy Ferguson (Class of 1968) by Marcus Williams" (2019). AF/AM/50 Oral History Project. 18.
https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/afam50oralhistory/18