Race and the University - Hardback candle in back-to-back Indy victories (1955

in back-to-back Indy victories (1955 and 1956

"Ain't it funny how many hundreds of thousands of soldiers we can recruit with nerve

The story of Tim Leonard begins in the Oklahoma Panhandle

boarded the USS Westernland in Antwerp

Race and the University - Hardback candle in back-to-back Indy victories (1955In 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