Portrait unveiled of Helen Bass Williams, Purdue’s first Black professor
A new painting, thought to be the first of a Black faculty member at Purdue, comes amid a year of honors for Williams, in a pioneering story gaining traction on campus
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A couple things came together a year ago in the quiet legend of the late Helen Bass Williams, as Briggitta August assembled the people and spaces for the first Black & Gold Black History at Purdue walking tours.
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