{"id":5090,"date":"2015-02-02T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T07:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2015-02-04T15:54:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T15:54:36","slug":"alan-thacker-busby-the-universitys-first-african-american-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/02\/02\/alan-thacker-busby-the-universitys-first-african-american-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Thacker Busby, the university&#8217;s first African-American student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/01\/uconn_asc_1988-0010-series4_box26_busby_ph001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5091\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/01\/uconn_asc_1988-0010-series4_box26_busby_ph001-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Thacker Busby, the university's first African-American student, 1990\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/01\/uconn_asc_1988-0010-series4_box26_busby_ph001-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/01\/uconn_asc_1988-0010-series4_box26_busby_ph001-808x1024.jpg 808w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/01\/uconn_asc_1988-0010-series4_box26_busby_ph001.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1914 Alan Thacker Busby of Worcester, Massachusetts, enrolled at the Connecticut Agricultural College, the first African-American student to attend\u00a0what would become the University of Connecticut. \u00a0He worked his way through college by milking cows, feeding hogs and cutting ice from the campus pond and was an honor student and a member of the football team his Junior year. \u00a0In 1918 became the college&#8217;s first African-American graduate. After he graduated from college he served in World War I as a member of the Army&#8217;s all-black Field Artillery Unit, which stayed in France months after the war ended. After his military service he was an Animal Husbandry professor at Bordentown Industrial School in New Jersey, Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College in Alcorn, Mississippi, and Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Busby Suites, University of Connecticut\" href=\"http:\/\/reslife.uconn.edu\/busby-suites\/\">Busby Suites<\/a>, a dormitory on the Storrs campus, was named in his honor.<\/p>\n<p>This photograph shows Prof. Busby back at the University of Connecticut, when he returned to his alma mater in Fall 1990 to act as Grand Marshall of the Homecoming Parade.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1914 Alan Thacker Busby of Worcester, Massachusetts, enrolled at the Connecticut Agricultural College, the first African-American student to attend\u00a0what would become the University of Connecticut. \u00a0He worked his way through college by milking cows, feeding hogs and cutting ice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/02\/02\/alan-thacker-busby-the-universitys-first-african-american-student\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[239,240,241,178],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-1k6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5114,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions\/5114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}