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Race and the University: A Memoir (10th Edition) by George Henderson, David W. Levy (Foreword), Sterlin N. Adams, Sandra D. Rouce Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-10: 0-8061-4129-8 / 0806141298 ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-4129-9 / 9780806141299 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 seem |