Monday, March 4, 2013

Rodney Bennett becomes first African-American to preside at the University of Southern Mississippi

New president of the University of Southern Mississippi.,Dr. Rodney Bennett

More than 50 years ago, the president of an all-white university in Mississippi went to such great lengths to keep a black man from enrolling as a student, that he had the man arrested on trumped up charges and sent to prison.

Treated harshly behind the walls of the historic Parchman penitentiary, that man, a Korean War veteran, was forced to work on their cotton plantation until he collapsed from the pangs of

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