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Founded in 1906, it took Georgia Southern almost 50 years to become integrated. The first black student GS enrolled as a grad student in the Fall of 1965 along with 6 undergraduate students. John Bradley was a high school teacher in Statesboro before he enrolled at GS as a grad student.  Fall semester of 1965. ....

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