Blacks in White Colleges

Oklahoma's Landmark Cases

Автор: George Lynn Cross

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: University of Oklahoma Press

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When George Lynn Cross arrived to teach botany at the University of Oklahoma in the summer of 1934,...

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Автор

George Lynn Cross

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1975

страници

168

EAN

9780806112671

ISBN

0806112670

Enbook ID

11524164

Издател

University of Oklahoma Press

Теглоt

223

Размери

140 x 216 x 11

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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. George Lynn Cross (1905-1998), a native of South Dakota, served the University of Oklahoma as Professor of Botany, Chair of the Department of Botany (1938-1942), and President from 1943 to 1968. Elected to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1951, he authored several books, including Professors, Presidents, and Politicians: Civil Rights and the University of Oklahoma, 1890-1968.

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