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and son of a prominent Oklahoma City lawyer

Book by David C

Designed by Solomon Andrew Layton

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Race and the University - Hardback Cow and son of a prominentIn 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