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One in 12,174.
One in 12,174.
That’s what George McLaurin became Oct. 14, 1948, when he began classes at OU: drifting alone, one dark face in a sea of 12,173 white ones.
Oct. 14 was a hopeful moment for McLaurin, the first black student at a previously all-white institution.
“This is a happy day in my life,” he told Sooner Magazine. “If things continue the way they have gone today, I think everything is going to be all right.”
McLaurin fought for admission to OU leading up to that day when he first applied earlier in 1948, he was denied based on his race. McLaurin went to court with the issue, and in a Sept. 29, 1948, verdict, he was victorious when a federal court ruled that denying him admission was unconstitutional.    ....

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