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Searcy inducted into Union Sports Hall of Fame

April 4, 2016 Mattanah DeWitt

Lonnie Searcy Jr., the first African-American student and student-athlete at Union University, was inducted into Union’s Sports Hall of Fame April 1 at the Carl Grant Events Center for his individual accomplishments in track and […]

Black History Month: The Searcys’ Story

February 25, 2016 Cardinal & Cream

The year was 1968. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Jackson City Hall had separate drinking fountains for ‘colored’ people and ‘white’ people and Union University only consisted of approximatley 500 students and a few […]