In 1986, an administrator at TSU decided that the school couldn’t participate in Ebony Magazine’s college queens issue, because it would identify TSU as a Black university. (Credit: Tennessee Electronic Library / Graphic by Emily Siner)
This story was produced by the Tennessee Lookout and WPLN News, with support from the Pulitzer Center and the Education Writers Association.
In the early 1980s, Tennessee State University was at a turning point…