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Students protesting outside the Johnson Center during the Black Lives Matter movement

This is a clipping from Rolling Stone that features the 2009 homecoming queen for George Mason, Reanne Ballslee (AKA Ryan Allen). This shows that Mason got widespread coverage for supporting drag.

Roger Wilkins (center, highlighted, facing the wall) and his first wife, Eve Wilkins (left of Wilkins), in a receiving line with President Lyndon B. Johnson (fourth from left), Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (second from right) and others,…

Attorney, civil rights activist, and historian Roger Wood Wilkins was born in Kansas City, Missouri, to Earl and Helen Wilkins on March 25, 1932. His father, Earl Wilkins, was a business manager for the Kansas City Hall newspaper, and his mother was…

Roger Wilkins was a leader in the fights for civil rights in the Kennedy and Johnson administration before becoming a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist. Wilkins provided an autobiography of a Black man who has moved through various levels of American…

Roger Wilkins in the center is being sworn in as Director of the United States Community Relations Service, Washington, D.C., January, 1966. Also in attendance is his first wife, Eve Wilkins, daughter, Amy Wilkins, and U.S. President Lyndon Baines…

Newspaper clip announcing Roger Wilkins appointment as director of Community Relations Service on December 27, 1965. Wilkins worked in several capacities as an advocate for justice, where he continues to be a major commentator and analyst on American…

During the Gulf War in 1991, the general attitude at George Mason University was one of discussion and analysis rather than widespread activism. Unlike the Vietnam War era, there were fewer large-scale protests. Instead, faculty members, particularly…

An article discussing the official opening of the Institute in 1997, which will be used for Neuroscience research and student success.

Bailey’s Crossroads: George Mason’s First Campus (1957–1964)
This small red-brick building at 5836 Columbia Pike in Falls Church, Virginia, was first built in 1922 as an elementary school. In 1957, it became the first home of George Mason College.…