page_title: Virginia State University
section_title: Alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Virginia State University / Notable people / Alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: Camilla Williams — Soprano opera vocalist, from the United States. Photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, photographer (1946).
context_page_description: Virginia State University is a historically black public land-grant university in Ettrick, Virginia. Founded on March 6, 1882, Virginia State developed as the United States's first fully state-supported four-year institution of higher learning for black Americans. The university is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
context_section_description: This list includes graduates, non-graduate former students and current students of Virginia State University.
caption: Alumna Camilla Williams, the first African American to get a contract from a major American opera company (namesake of Taylor-Williams Hall at the university)
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