Sixty years, Mary Jean Price finally got her (honorary) college degree, the awarding college’s first.
In 1950, Price was denied entrance to Southwest Missouri State University — now Missouri State University — because she is black. She decided to skip college and her girlhood dream of being a teacher.
And thanks, Bro. Jay, for the link.
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Wow! What a staggeringly beautiful ending.
We have come so far, but when I look back at the injustice that was rampant, it makes me want to scream, then cry. Best of luck to a strong person.
I’m happy for this woman. I wish she can have realized her dream to teach, though.
I’ll be she’ll be invited to a lot of schools and community organizations to tell her story.
And that is a form of teaching, yes. But I think she’d have been fabulous in a classroom.