Honoring Alan Thacker Busby: First Black Graduate, UConn Trailblazer 

In 1914, a young man from Worcester, Massachusetts enrolled in the Connecticut Agricultural College to pursue a degree in animal science. He was the first Black student to attend, was the only student of color during his four undergraduate years, and would go on to become the first Black graduate of what would become the University of Connecticut. This trailblazing student was Alan Thacker Busby.
Read more at UConn Today: today.uconn.edu/2022/02/honor...
Narrated by:
LaShawnda Phillips
Animal Science, Ratcliffe Hicks School of Agriculture '20
Animal Science, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources '22