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  The Tonya Traylor Collection

If You Could See Them Through My Eyes 

About Dr. Horace Jerome Traylor

Dr. Horace Jerome Traylor was the President of Chattanooga City College (The only black College in Tennessee at a time when schools were segregated) and in 1969 was key in instrumenting the merger of Chattanooga City College with the University of Chattanooga to form the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) as part of the UT System.[1]

The following Convocation speech by Dr.Traylor tells his story:  

He was President of the Foundation for Miami Dade Community College and

Vice President for Institutional Advancement Miami Dade Community College