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Merze Tate: A trailblazing Western alumna who made an international impact

February 1, 2021
KALAMAZOO, Mich. Professor. World traveler. Journalist. Inventor. This 20th century renaissance woman may not have made it to the moon, but
Dr. Merze Tate s resolve to boldly blaze her own path puts her among Western Michigan University s brightest stars. Fueled by a thirst for knowledge and boundless ambition, she became the first Black student to receive a bachelor s degree from Western State Teachers College which would later become WMU in 1927. But the road to get there was not easy.
She took the limits off herself, as an African American and as a woman, says
Sonya Bernard-Hollins, a Western alumna and founder of the Merze Tate Explorers. She lived her entire life with the attitude that, I m not going to let that stop me. There may be some barriers, I may have to fight through them, but I m not going to let that define me. ....

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