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SHADES OF COLOR


These true stories, set in the bloody and divisive 1960s, reveal the ultimate solution to ALL human conflict.
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Shades of Color is about the relationships and treatment of people to each other, and their innocence like children until taught something different.
 
It’s about the true, heart-warming stories of the first students of color—primarily, Native-American and African-American—to attend Northwestern Oklahoma State University, located on the Salt Fork River on the northwestern border of Oklahoma and in the western Great Plains. Families and feeder-towns across this large area were mostly all-white as were the students.
 
It was the 1950-60s. Based on the divisiveness and bloody civil unrest and hostility in other parts of the country, similar results for these students of color might have been expected. In fact, its 1962 enrolling class was required to study To Kill A Mockingbird for student orientation.  (Continued... >>)
Published December 2021 as Paperback: 978-1-7376498-0-9 Epub: 978-1-7376498-1-6
and ​Hardcover: 978-1-7376498-2-3
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