Part & Apart: The Black Experience At Cornell 1865-1945

Starting from a partial list of African-American students in the University Library archives, she pieced together the students' history from hundreds of primary sources -- yearbook entries, student diaries, administrators' correspondence and newspapers. Cheryl Rowland, on the Rare and Manuscript Collections staff in Kroch Library, "was able to follow the slightest clues to locate archival materials," Kammen said.