Fifty years ago this June, Ronald Yancey took an important step — well, several — in Georgia Tech’s history as he donned his regalia and walked across the stage as the only black man among 300 graduates and the first African-American student to receive a degree from the Institute.
His proud achievement did not come easily but was earned through years of perseverance, trials, tribulations, and loneliness.
Yancey was born in Atlanta and grew up next door to Porto Rico Whitehead, who worked for the Georgia Tech Athletic Association under coaches William Alexander and Bobby Dodd. Whitehead regularly brought home gameday programs for young Ron, who knew he wanted to go to Tech and become an engineer.
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