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| ====== Roberts, Charles E. (1911) ====== | ====== Roberts, Charles E. (1911) ====== |
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| <html><div class="youmassright"> | {{http://scua.library.umass.edu/images/youmass/football_1911.jpg?350|Football team, 1911}} |
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| <div class="caption">Football team, 1911 (Roberts second from left, center)</div> | Football team, 1911 (Roberts second from left, center) |
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| Charles Elliott Roberts in unique among the [[a:african_american_students|early African American students]] at Massachusetts Agricultural College in not being from the south. Although comparatively little is known about him, Roberts was probably born in Bellows Falls, Vermont, on Mar. 21, 1887, one of at least seven children of Perry Roberts (born in Maryland in Apr. 1862), a janitor at the Society House in Amherst, and Ella Eunice (Brooks) Perry (b. Apr. 1865), who was listed as having a French Canadian mother. The family lived in a small African American enclave at 62 Hazel Ave., immediately below the present-day Amherst College football fields (1). | Charles Elliott Roberts in unique among the [[a:african_american_students|early African American students]] at Massachusetts Agricultural College in not being from the south. Although comparatively little is known about him, Roberts was probably born in Bellows Falls, Vermont, on Mar. 21, 1887, one of at least seven children of Perry Roberts (born in Maryland in Apr. 1862), a janitor at the Society House in Amherst, and Ella Eunice (Brooks) Perry (b. Apr. 1865), who was listed as having a French Canadian mother. The family lived in a small African American enclave at 62 Hazel Ave., immediately below the present-day Amherst College football fields (1). |
