Frazier Leon Thompson Sr., (192?-1991), originally from Philadelphia was the first African-American student to enroll at and graduate from the University of Notre Dame. Thompson began attending Notre Dame in 1944 as part of the V-12 Navy College Training Program and graduated in the class of 1947. He was also the first African-American student to compete in Notre Dame athletics and to win a Notre Dame monogram. Thompson went on to work with the United States Postal Service and as an engineer testing space suit design at NASA
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