Profiles & Narratives
The UMass Black Presence website serves as a living history of the experiences, contributions, and stories of Black students, alumni, faculty and staff. Through the oral history interviews and archival research, we've captured these stories to provide an authentic and in-depth understanding of these lived experiences.
This is a growing website with additional interviews, news, profiles, and moments in history being populated on an ongoing basis. We encourage you to share any content you have that should be highlighted on this webpage.
Matthew Washington Bullock, Class of 1904, was born on September 11, 1881 in Dabney, North Carolina to slave parents. Mr. Bullock's parents fled the south in 1889 to Massachusetts with seven children and ten dollars in cash.