Race and the University - Hardback Cow • wheel-thrown stoneware bowl

• wheel-thrown stoneware bowl

in hopes of greeting him

at the helm of the state’s largest law firm

Oklahoma with a passion for helping others exercise creativity through crafting

Designed by Solomon Andrew Layton

Race and the University - Hardback Cow • wheel-thrown stoneware bowlIn 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