# @ncstate on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CKw7DsED98a
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/3760501-ncstate-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-02-01T21:19:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NC State University (@NCState) — https://gondola.cc/NCState

## Caption

When NC State opened its first dormitory for women in 1964, Norma Wright Garcia was waiting. The history major and native of Willard, N.C., eagerly enrolled at the university for the last two years of her degree. 

Garcia wasn’t just one of the first women to live on campus. In 1966, she became NC State’s first Black female graduate. 

“I never felt out of place,” Garcia told @ncstatechass’ Accolades magazine in 2007. “I met people in the dorm, in my classes, in the cafeteria. What brought us together was what we had in common, not our skin color.”

Before her death in 2012, Garcia was a public school teacher in Eastern North Carolina for 25 years. She also earned a master’s degree in German from Wake Forest University and lived in Germany for six months.

Going to a school where few people looked like her didn’t intimidate Garcia, and neither did traveling abroad or exploring new cultures. “My experiences at NC State made me more aware and interested in the world around me,” she told Accolades.

Visit the link in our bio to explore more #NCStateBHM profiles. #BlackHistoryMonth

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