Blacks in White Colleges: Oklahoma's Landmark Cases

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 admissi...