Growing up in Charlottesville during the era of racial segregation, many opportunities were denied to James Bryant on the account of his skin color. Yet, one opportunity that was made available to him along with many other low-income high school students from the area was a pre-college academic enrichment program offered by the University of Virginia: Upward Bound. Education

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EMILY HEMPHILL The Daily Progress

“We all were first-generation college students,” Bryant, who was raised alongside his six siblings in one of the city’s public housing projects, told The Daily Progress. “None of our parents had ever gone to college. So this was a sort of new phenomena. Upward Bound was our ticket to going to school basically. We we

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