Breaking Down Barriers: George McLaurin and the Struggle to End Segregated Education by David W. Levy

Breaking Down Barriers: George McLaurin and the Struggle to End Segregated Education

David W. Levy

246 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography sociology informative reflective medium-paced

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For nearly sixty years, the University of Oklahoma, in obedience to state law, denied admission to African Americans. Only in October 1948 did this racial barrier start to break down, when an elderly teacher named George McLaurin became the first ...

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