Pauline Byrd Johnson, Kalamazoo College class of 1926, the first Black woman to graduate from Kalamazoo College, shares her story in the book Emancipated Spirits. Besides her college days she tells other stories such as meeting Langston Hughes in the 1940s and arranging for him to visit Kalamazoo!

Read the book here: http://hdl.handle.net/10920/5623.