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This is an image of white students at GMU in the 1960's participating in a 'slave stale' clearly mocking the past that black people used to live just years before this. There are misleading signs on the three students intended to taunt slavery as the…

While many college sports fans are familiar with the George Mason University Men’s Basketball team’s run to the Final Four in 2006, not as many know about the Mason Women’s Soccer team’s National Championship title of 21 years earlier. The author of…

A young black man participates the winter commencement festival in which he is graduating the winter of 1971. This is during a time where there was still racial divide and turmoil within the GMU campus, which inherently could cause black students at…

A child of approximately 2 years of age plays with a toy at the Hourly Child Care Center at George Mason College. Center was located across Ox Road from the main part of the Fairfax Campus. Photo is from Spring,1971.

Center for Mason Legacies Director George D. Oberle III, a George Mason University associate professor of history and the university's history librarian, graciously agreed to provide this analysis, despite his numerous campus obligations and…

The need for on-campus childcare was confirmed through a study coordinated by a representative of student parents and GMC Chancellor Lorin Thompson. The intent is to provide hourly childcare at a low cost for student and faculty members of GMC…

In the first half of the 20th century, most mothers stayed home and took care of their children while fathers went out to work to make money and provide for families. Many mothers did not use childcare because it was merely even at exsistence at the…

Woman began to immerse themselves into feminism and began to join the workforce and obtain an education regardless of gender roles and male dominated work place oppurtunities.

Fans in the crowd celebrating the team.

The GMU mens basketball team celebrating their D1 championship title in 2006 after making it into the Final Four of the NCAA tournament.