The Washington Post has the story of the first black student to attend Auburn University, and the lengths the school went in trying to deny him a degree.
“Each time, I would carry my thesis to be proof read, they’d find an excuse,” said Franklin, now 86. “Sometimes, I didn’t dot an ‘i.’ One of the professors told me: ‘Yours has to be perfect because you are Black, and people will be reading yours.’ ”
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| Harold A. Franklin walks near Samford Hall at Auburn University after enrolling for graduate study in January 1964. (Auburn University) |
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