Race and the University: A Memoir Contributor(s): Henderson, Ge

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press (View Publisher's Titles)

US SRP: $ 24.95 US

Binding: Hardcover

Pub Date: September 10, 2010

Annotation: 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. 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.