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AFRO-AMERICAN AGITATOR
In his new book, "T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings 1880-1928," Shawn Leigh Alexander, assistant professor of African and African-American studies, gathers some of the long-time journalist's most notable works. A fiery journalist who wrote for newspapers and mainstream New York press, Fortune often wrote about America's need to live up to its promises made after emancipation. Alexander argues that Fortune, often overshadowed by his association with Booker T. Washington, deserves to be remembered as his own man.
KU HISTORY:
Time magazine took note of KU's aspirations of greatness in an article on July 16, 1951. In a piece about the departing Chancellor Deane W. Malott and his replacement, KU Medical Center Dean Franklin D. Murphy, the magazine wrote, "In the last 12 years, KU has begun to climb from its place as a solid but unspectacular state university ... Under Chancellor Murphy, it hopes to climb even faster." For more, see
www.kuhistory.com.
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