James Dickson Carr o far as is known,
James Dickson Carr '92, was the first black graduate of Rutgers. He was the son of a Presbyterian clergyman from Elizabeth,
New Jersey, and he later went to Columbia Law School and became an assistant district attorney in New York City. Carr's only
surviving major communication with Rutgers in his alumni file is a strong protest to President Demarest about Rutgers
keeping Paul Robeson out of a football game with Washington and Lee in 1916, because the Washington and Lee team
objected to playing against a black man. If the president made any response, it has not survived.
o far as is known,
James Dickson Carr '92, was the first black graduate of Rutgers. He was the son of a Presbyterian clergyman from Elizabeth,
New Jersey, and he later went to Columbia Law School and became an assistant district attorney in New York City. Carr's only
surviving major communication with Rutgers in his alumni file is a strong protest to President Demarest about Rutgers
keeping Paul Robeson out of a football game with Washington and Lee in 1916, because the Washington and Lee team
objected to playing against a black man. If the president made any response, it has not survived.