The Key to the Door: Experiences of Early African American Students at the University of Virginia - Paperbackby Maurice Apprey (Editor), Shelli M. Poe (Editor) The Key to the Door frames and highlights the stories of some of the first black students at the University of Virginia. This inspiring account of resilience and transformation offers a diversity of experiences and perspectives through first person narratives of black students during the University of Virginia's era of incremental desegregation. The authors relate what life was like before enrolling,