Shades of Color: Innocence of a Child - An Unequaled Legacy

Shades of Color, these true, heart-warming stories, set in the bloody and divisive 1960s, reveal the ultimate solution to ALL human conflict -- The Agape Love of God. The book was based on the true, heart-warming stories of the first individuals of color to attend Northwestern Oklahoma State University, a mostly white school and western Great Plains area. Tough racial questions were asked. The time period was the 1960s, one of the bloodiest and deadliest in the United States since the Civil War. The observations, though, are as applicable today.


We were shades of color: red, black, brown, yellow, and white. We were Muscogee-Creek, Asian, Cherokee, Choctaw, Mohawk, Blacks, Osage, European, Mid-Eastern, Persian, Spanish, Comanche, Delaware, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Navajo, African but, primarily, white.


We were students, faculty, and staff of a small university located on the Salt Fork River along the northwest border of Oklahoma. Yet, compared to many areas of the country around us, our lives were mostly calm and peaceful, like in the eye of a violent and destructive hurricane. ... Why?


Answers are revealed in Shades of Color. Let their heart-warming messages speak to you. A gauntlet of emotions will occur-laughter, sorrow, tears, and joy.


Learn of the impacts of the daily national issues of that time-civil rights; politics and corruption; Korea and Vietnam; and anti-war movements, riots, bombings, and deaths.


These truths of our history, though, may be even more important today in the twenty-first century and, as the final word is read and you see the reality of people and groups coming together, you'll also discover hope for the future of our Nation.

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Shades of Color: Innocence of a Child - An Unequaled Legacy

Shades of Color, these true, heart-warming stories, set in the bloody and divisive 1960s, reveal the ultimate solution to ALL human conflict -- The Agape Love of God. The book was based on the true, heart-warming stories of the first individuals of color to attend Northwestern Oklahoma State University, a mostly white school and western Great Plains area. Tough racial questions were asked. The time period was the 1960s, one of the bloodiest and deadliest in the United States since the Civil War. The observations, though, are as applicable today.


We were shades of color: red, black, brown, yellow, and white. We were Muscogee-Creek, Asian, Cherokee, Choctaw, Mohawk, Blacks, Osage, European, Mid-Eastern, Persian, Spanish, Comanche, Delaware, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Navajo, African but, primarily, white.


We were students, faculty, and staff of a small university located on the Salt Fork River along the northwest border of Oklahoma. Yet, compared to many areas of the country around us, our lives were mostly calm and peaceful, like in the eye of a violent and destructive hurricane. ... Why?


Answers are revealed in Shades of Color. Let their heart-warming messages speak to you. A gauntlet of emotions will occur-laughter, sorrow, tears, and joy.


Learn of the impacts of the daily national issues of that time-civil rights; politics and corruption; Korea and Vietnam; and anti-war movements, riots, bombings, and deaths.


These truths of our history, though, may be even more important today in the twenty-first century and, as the final word is read and you see the reality of people and groups coming together, you'll also discover hope for the future of our Nation.

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Shades of Color: Innocence of a Child - An Unequaled Legacy

Shades of Color: Innocence of a Child - An Unequaled Legacy

by Clifton Savoy
Shades of Color: Innocence of a Child - An Unequaled Legacy

Shades of Color: Innocence of a Child - An Unequaled Legacy

by Clifton Savoy

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Shades of Color, these true, heart-warming stories, set in the bloody and divisive 1960s, reveal the ultimate solution to ALL human conflict -- The Agape Love of God. The book was based on the true, heart-warming stories of the first individuals of color to attend Northwestern Oklahoma State University, a mostly white school and western Great Plains area. Tough racial questions were asked. The time period was the 1960s, one of the bloodiest and deadliest in the United States since the Civil War. The observations, though, are as applicable today.


We were shades of color: red, black, brown, yellow, and white. We were Muscogee-Creek, Asian, Cherokee, Choctaw, Mohawk, Blacks, Osage, European, Mid-Eastern, Persian, Spanish, Comanche, Delaware, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Navajo, African but, primarily, white.


We were students, faculty, and staff of a small university located on the Salt Fork River along the northwest border of Oklahoma. Yet, compared to many areas of the country around us, our lives were mostly calm and peaceful, like in the eye of a violent and destructive hurricane. ... Why?


Answers are revealed in Shades of Color. Let their heart-warming messages speak to you. A gauntlet of emotions will occur-laughter, sorrow, tears, and joy.


Learn of the impacts of the daily national issues of that time-civil rights; politics and corruption; Korea and Vietnam; and anti-war movements, riots, bombings, and deaths.


These truths of our history, though, may be even more important today in the twenty-first century and, as the final word is read and you see the reality of people and groups coming together, you'll also discover hope for the future of our Nation.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781737649816
Publisher: SavoyHouse, LLC
Publication date: 11/20/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 374
File size: 13 MB
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About the Author

Clifton Savoy was born and raised in western Oklahoma, called the 'Panhandle,' an area once known as 'No Man's Land' before statehood. He's a graduate of Northwestern OSU, class of 1967. He and wife, Judith, now live in Tallahassee, Florida, but he has never forgotten those roots. Now, he is following his passion-to bring life to stories that deserve to be resurrected from the ashes of history, and not altered with time. ... Shades of Color is one of them, and it's an honor to bring these heart-tugging memories back to life. Check his author website for information of other stories, or just send a 'Howdy.' Or, come, sit a spell by his campfire, and share your stories. Coffee's usually perking. www.CliftonSavoy.com CFSavoy@Nettally.com

Table of Contents

Partial list: 

1.    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. interrupts game

 2.  Northwestern's (NW) first Black student-athletes

10.  NW's First Indian Student-Athletes 

11. Benny Smith, Cherokee. Rescue from Death  .

15.  Fledgling NW Rodeo Team 

16.  Black Children Killed in Bombing

17.  WW II Nazi POW Camp and suicides

20. Black Bodies... Dead on the Floor If...

21.  Dad of Mohawk player to Visit NW

25.  President John F. Kennedy Assassinated

26.  News: Civil Rights, Kennedy Assassination, Vietnam

27.  He's Black and AWOL! Lock Him Up!

29.  "How do you get the black off?"

31. 1964 Civil Rights Act, Vietnam

32.  First Streaker? Pipestem and 'White Eyes'  .  .

34.  King Escapes Assassination

35.  Class Assignment: July 4th and 4th Civil Rights Act, "We Lose When We Forget or Never Know History."

37.  Death of Bill Woltje, Pipestem and Campbell War!

41.  Langston U. Homecoming

43.  Indian, Cowboy, Custer & 7th

44.  1964 Civil Rights Act, Longest Filibuster, LBJ's Great Society, Vietnam   

45. "He Can't Eat Here!" 

46. "They're Gonna Make Me Fat" to Alva Church    

47. Scary Night at the Morgue  

48. Vietnam an 'Official War'

50. Comanche, Cowboy, Ma Griggs  

51.  "We Don't Serve Coloreds!"

55.  Draft, Deaths, Protests, KKK, Civil Rights History

56.  Douglas Seniors Visit white NW

58.  "...Fool Is Going To Get Shot..."

59.  Military to student, "We're Coming For You!"

60.  Tragedy strikes again, student Killed

63.  Vietnam Troop Expansion, Protests, Riots, Texas Tower Shooter

66.  Impact of draft Notices

67. Bennett, KIA

68.  1967: War Loses Support, First Black Justice Thurgood Marshall. Dr. King, "Agape Love is the solution."

70.  LBJ, "...Not Run for President"                       

 72.  Dr. King Assassinated, "Character Not Color!"

 73-77. Robert F, Kennedy Assassinated, ... Tough Racial Questions. "Being Black Was Never..." ... Mostly white public institution of higher learning elects Black woman as Homecoming Queen. ... Letter from Vietnam, "Just shades of color. Innocent like that kid asking me 'how do I take it off?' until we are taught different."

 Appendix:

1)   Race questions not in text, 2)  First NW student-athletess of color at NW, 3) notable accomplishments not in text, 4)   Innocence of a Child - An Unequaled Legacy, 5)   Greeting of NW Oklahoma State University, and 6) About the Author 

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