“A lot has changed and for the better since then,” Grier said, “and an event like this will help those of us who lived it tell our story to the younger generation.”
The hosts for the celebration at the Petersen Events Center will be Pitt's athletic department and the school's African-American Alumni Council. It will mark the 100th anniversary of the first African-American athletes to graduate from Pitt.
The emcee will be NBC's Bob Costas, and it will commemorate the achievements of Pitt's African-American student athletes since 1911, when track stars Harry Ray Wooten from Oakdale, Pa., and Hubbard Hollensworth from Owego, N.Y., became the first African-American athletes to graduate from the university.
