Great Day for a Great Cause! Always a pleasure to team up with NMDP and Get in the Game to save lives. Proud of all the athletes that gave their time today! Thank you to all who registered! #RollCats

The Bobcat GameDay Atmosphere #GoBates

Happy Presidents' Day! We are wishing a restful break to all of our community.

BREAKING: Published this morning in the The Chronicle of Higher Education, Bates has been named a 'Top Producer' of Fulbright Student awards for 2023-24, marking 13 consecutive years of excellence with the The Fulbright Program.

Read the full announcement: bit.ly/49q2mQ4

Happy Valentine’s Day from the Bates College Football Program! #HappyValentinesDay

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Tommie Smith was a world class sprinter who protested (along with John Carlos) on the winner’s podium at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Due to their actions, Smith and Carlos were temporarily banned from amateur athletics. Tommie Smith was inducted into

Day 11 of #BHM
Frank S. Greene Jr. was the 1st Black graduate from the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps. Greene also received numerous awards as a brilliant inventor and high achiever, including his induction into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame in 2001.

Day 10 of #BHM
April 24, 1991, Corporal Freddie Stowers was recognized posthumously for his bravery from the Hundred Days Offensive in France in 1918. He was the 1st Black soldier to be awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest U.S military decoration, for his service in WWI.

Day 9 of #BHM
Ralph Elwood Brock is recognized as the 1st Black American forester. He was academically trained and became an experienced manager of foresters in his home state of Pennsylvania.

Day 8 of #BHM
In the 1960 Olympics, Wilma Rudolph became the first American woman to win three gold medals. Her world record breaking performances earned her the United Press Athlete of the Year in 1960 and the AP Woman Athlete of the Year in 1960 and 1961.

the Board, she was a professor of economics and international relations at Michigan State University. Her inspiration to study economics came from her interest in Dr. Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the 1st Black American to earn a Ph.D. in economics in the U.S.

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Dr. Lisa D. Cook is the 1st Black woman to serve on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. On May 10, 2022, the Senate confirmed the nomination with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tiebreaking vote. Prior to her appointment to

Congrats to our R.E.A.L. Teammates from week one and week two! These young men continue to go above in beyond in the classroom and in the community.
#RollCats

Day 6 of #BHM
Alexander Miles was a successful inventor in the late 19th century. In 1887, he received his patent for safer elevator doors that are a standard in the modern designs for elevator systems. In 2007, Miles was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Day 5 of #BHM
Lewis Latimer was a monumental innovator in helping Thomas Edison perfect the light bulb. Latimer's longer-lasting light bulbs were unique because of the use of carbon filaments as opposed to more volatile materials, such as bamboo.
🔗invention.si.edu/innovative-liv…

Day 4 of #BHM
Today, I want to share a video about the Tulsa Race Riot. Tulsa’s Greenwood District, known as “Black Wall Street” was one of the most thriving Black communities in America. In 1921, it was attacked and destroyed by a violent mob.

youtu.be/SUCv8NVgnfc?si…

Day 3 of #BHM
The Greenville Library Desegregation Crisis involved 8 Black students who protested the segregated library system in Greenville, SC. The 8 students, known as the “Greenville 8”, went to the library to challenge the segregation policies. After refusing to leave,

special useful services for coastal defense.' The work of the yeowomen to oversee administrative and clerical work allowed Americans to establish the early framework towards civil rights and equality in the military.

Read more here with this link!
🔗atlasobscura.com/articles/hidde…

Day 2 of #BHM
The 'Golden 14' were the 1st Black yeowomen to serve in the U.S. Navy. Due to a shortage of clerical workers during that era, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson passed the Naval Reserve Act of 1916, which requested for, 'all persons who may be capable of performing