Essex Finney in First Year in the VPI Cadet Corps. Essex Finney's first year in the Cadet Corps, 1956. Essex Finney was one of the first Black students at Virginia Tech.
This document is a series of Cinderella stamps with children holding two-barred crosses with the words "Christmas Greetings" above them and "1956" next to each child.
Movie poster for Paramount Pictures' 1956 film The Proud and the Profane, which was adapted from Lucy Herndon Crockett's book, The Magnificent Bastards.