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1955
First African-American Student Graduated
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James A. Saunders from Charleston, Ill., was the first African-American student to earn a journalism degree at the University of Missouri. Saunders earned a master's degree with his thesis "A Study of Recent Attitudes of Advertisers toward Selected Metropolitan Negro Newspapers." Because of the segregated climate of the country and "separate but equal" laws, blacks were not admitted to the University before 1950.
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