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Blacks in White Colleges

Oklahoma's Landmark Cases

By: George Lynn Cross

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Blacks in White Colleges

Oklahoma's Landmark Cases

By: George Lynn Cross

When George Lynn Cross arrived to teach botany at the University of Oklahoma in the summer of 1934, racial segregation was so strong in Norman that no African American dared remain within the city limits after sundown. Almost ten years later when Cross became president of the university, the full extent of Oklahoma’s segregation laws came sharply into focus. This book is President Cross’s story of the events leading to the desegregation of the University of Oklahoma in 1948, with the admission of George W. McLaurin to the Graduate School of Education. Earlier, a young black woman, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, had applied to the OU School of Law and been denied admission because of her race. With the help of attorneys from the NAACP she took her case to the U.S. Supreme Court. The High Court equivocated, and a “separate but equal” law school was hastily established in Oklahoma City as a branch of all-black Langston University. It was not until three years later—and then only after the intervention of President Cross, who personally overrode “the law’s delay”—that Ms. Fisher was able to study at the University of Oklahoma, from which she later graduated with honors. Cross places these momentous events in historical context. The story of desegregation at the University of Oklahoma, a landmark in the continuing struggle for racial equality in the United States, makes for an engrossing book.

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Blacks in White Colleges

Oklahoma's Landmark Cases

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0806146796

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Race and the University

A Memoir

By: George Henderson

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Race and the University

A Memoir

By: George Henderson

In 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers, accepted a full-time professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite his mentor's warning to avoid the "redneck school in a backward state." Henderson became the university's third African American professor, a hire that seemed to suggest the dissolving of racial divides. However, when real estate agents in the university town of Norman denied the Henderson family their first three choices of homes, the sociologist and educator realized he still faced some formidable challenges. In this stirring memoir, Henderson recounts his formative years at the University of Oklahoma, during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He describes in graphic detail the obstacles that he and other African Americans faced within the university community, a place of "white privilege, black separatism, and campus-wide indifference to bigotry." As an adviser and mentor to young black students who wanted to do something about these conditions, Henderson found himself at the forefront of collective efforts to improve race relations at the university. Henderson is quick to acknowledge that he and his fellow activists did not abolish all vestiges of racial oppression. But they set in motion a host of institutional changes that continue to this day. In Henderson's words, "we were ordinary people who sometimes did extraordinary things." Capturing what was perhaps the most tumultuous era in the history of American higher education, Race and the University includes valuable recollections of former student activists who helped transform the University of Oklahoma into one of the nation's most diverse college campuses.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806183349

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9780806183343

Britain by Britrail 1999-00

Touring Britain by Train

By: George Ferguson,LaVerne Ferguson

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Britain by Britrail 1999-00

Touring Britain by Train

By: George Ferguson,LaVerne Ferguson

This guide to touring Britain by train features London, Glasgow and Edinburgh as base cities with side trips to 45 surrounding destinations. It also discusses crossing the Irish Sea by train and crossing the English Channel via the Chunnel.

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324

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076270313X

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9780762703135

Britain by Britrail, 1998-99

How to Tour Britain by Train

By: George Ferguson,LaVerne Ferguson

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Britain by Britrail, 1998-99

How to Tour Britain by Train

By: George Ferguson,LaVerne Ferguson

The only individual guide on the market devoted exclusively to rail travel in Great Britain, this new edition includes the only thorough updates of all fares and schedules in print, new day trips to towns connected by the Channel Tunnel and how to access it with a rail pass, as well as new attractions, tours, and other travel information for excursions. 20 photos & maps.

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0762701080

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9780762701087

Britain by BritRail 2000

Touring Britain by Train

By: LaVerne Ferguson,George Ferguson

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Britain by BritRail 2000

Touring Britain by Train

By: LaVerne Ferguson,George Ferguson

This guide to traveling Britain by rail has the most up-to-date information on fares, schedules and pass options. New extras include tips on keeping costs down, exchanging currency and detailed station and city maps.

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338

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0762705000

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9780762705009

Double-cross

By: George Douglas

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Double-cross

By: George Douglas

When Miss Norah Allet, aspiring novelist, disappears from Colonel Crayle's guest house, Detective Chief Superintendent Grant of the Hexford CID finds himself pressurised into a full-scale investigation. One of the other guests is political journalist Henry Marsh, who possesses information which could, if published, plunge the country into the gravest of scandals. When Marsh's beloved great-niece Valerie's is kidnapped, the two cases merge.

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Ulverscroft

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0708954448

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Blacks in White Colleges

Blacks in White Colleges

Blacks in White Colleges

Blacks in White Colleges

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Britain by Britrail 1999-00

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Britain by Britrail, 1998-99

Britain by Britrail, 1998-99

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