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Blacks in Crimson and Blue: The Educational Experiences of Ex-Slaves at the University of Kansas from the 1870s-1920s
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Davis, Donna M. – American Educational History Journal, 2013
At a time when most other institutions of higher education in the country excluded ex-slaves from admission, the University of Kansas conferred degrees upon sixty African Americans by 1910. However, while the university did allow ex-slaves to matriculate, these students still experienced a degree of exclusion and encountered barriers of racial…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Slavery, African American Education, African American History