In 1968, one of the goals of Dr. Elmo Stevenson, president of Southern Oregon College, in Ashland, Oregon, was to bring cultural diversity to the school now known as Southern Oregon University. Enrollment had hit an all-time high with over 3,700 students in 1967. But what bothered Dr. Stevenson was that only 16 (.4 percent) of them were African-American. Delores Miller was one of those 16. Integration was still a contentious issue in some parts of the United States. Racial [...]
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