Mary Frances Early discusses breaking barriers
March 2, 2021
On Feb. 25, 2020, the entire University of Georgia community celebrated the naming of the College of Education for one of its most esteemed graduates, Mary Frances Early. (Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA)
Reflections shared on the one-year anniversary of college naming
One year after the College of Education was
, Mary Frances Early celebrated virtually on a Zoom call with her friends and family along with Dean Denise Spangler and UGA President Jere W. Morehead.
On Feb. 25, she joined Phaidra Buchanan for a virtual conversation to celebrate the end of the University of Georgia Press’ Campus Read event. The conversation, moderated by Cynthia Dillard, Mary Frances Early Endowed Professor of Teacher Education, brought together the university’s first African American graduate and the university’s first African American Rhodes Scholar to discuss the past, present and future of a desegregated UGA.