Posted: April 19, 2011
Swem Library presents the exhibit "The World of Henry Billups: Jim Crow at the College of William and Mary." During the Jim Crow Era this country was once again divided, this time along racial lines. Everything was separate--toilets, restaurants, even cemeteries. Survival meant that most blacks operated in two worlds--living in one, working in another. This was not an easy life; W.E.B. DuBois argued that the emotional toll might have destroyed a weaker people. Henry Billups labored at William & Mary from 1888 until 1955, and he operated in two different worlds—on the campus he was the “Doctor of Boozeology”; at home he was a respected family man. More information about the exhibit.
