Maggie P. Bryant turned 104 on July 2. She was born five years after NCCU was founded.
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Bryant received a scholarship in the 1930s to attend North Carolina College for Negroes--which was the university's name from 1925 to 1947.
Bryant studied history and library science and participated in choir and band. She graduated in 1938--the first NCCU class to graduate in the B.N.Duke Auditorium.
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She later returned to school, earning her Bachelor of Science in library science in 1943 and her master's degree in 1957.
Bryant currently lives in Durham.