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Chester Davenport entered University of Georgia's law school in 1963, the first black student to attend. Three years later, he graduated. He was still the only black student.
Mr. Davenport, an Athens native, delivered the university's 97th Sibley Lecture on Wednesday afternoon, blending personal accounts of his law school years with recollections of the civil rights movement's impact on the South.See the full content of this document
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First Black Grad Tells Experience
The lecture commemorated the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, a May 1954 U.S. Supreme C...
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