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Hypocrisy backfires on State of Alabama
Updated May 09, 2021;
Today’s guest columnist is J. Mason Davis.
I graduated from Talladega College, a small liberal arts college located in Talladega, Alabama, in June 1956.
Talladega College had been founded in 1867 as one of the first, if not the first, school for educating the former enslaved Black man, though not limited to his or her race.
I wanted to become a lawyer to follow in the footsteps of my mother’s middle brother, Walter Wellington Harris, who had graduated from Ohio State University Law School in 1933.
Being a resident of the city of Birmingham, the nearest law school for me was located at the University of Alabama, in Tuscaloosa. However, I was prohibited from attending the law school because I was classified as a Negro, and the University of Alabama was supported by all taxpaying Alabamians exclusively for those who claimed to be Caucasian.