![]() ![]() ![]() At the same time, she was enrolled in the UW School of Commerce where she obtained a certificate in stenography. At age 15, after having completed eight grades in the public schools, she entered the University of Wyoming.īurton completed her high school requirements at the University of Wyoming Preparatory School. Wyoming law outlawed interracial marriages and permitted discrimination in housing and education.Ĭarrie Burton, however, was a musical prodigy and her talents opened a world of opportunities for her. She was no doubt aware of prejudice because of her race at various times during her life. Growing up in Laramie, young Carrie was subjected to racial epithets at school, her half-brother drowned, and she was molested by a white man. Carrie, however, was born to Katie on Jand never really knew her birth father. ![]() After moving separately to Laramie, Wyoming, they were married in 1895. Her parents-mother Katie Burton and stepfather Tom Price-were both born into slavery, but Katie moved to Wyoming Territory in the 1887 and Tom retired there after being discharged from the 9th Cavalry Regiment in 1876. Carrie Burton is best known as the first African American to attend the University of Wyoming. ![]()
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