The 1893 football team with the first African American player Edward Harvey. An all-around athlete, he also played on the 1890 and 1891 baseball team.Edward had two brothers, Frederick Douglas Grant, and Sherman Alan, who were also athletes at theā¦
Pictured here in the 1903 Jayhawker yearbook is Lela B. Ford and Inez E. Wood. They are among the earliest African Americans to have their photos in a KU yearbook.