persistence

” is a phrase Larsen grew up hearing from his grandfather

The Oklahoma National Guard has a magnificent history

and families who sacrificed in the Great War

and sealed for durability

Race and the University - Hardback Oklahoma persistenceIn 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