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Author Roberts, Pamela

Title Black Oxford : the Untold Stories of Oxford University's Black Scholars
Published Luton : Andrews UK, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (172 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Publisher information; Author's Preface; Glossary; Introduction; Body matter; Oxford Pioneers; Christian Frederick Cole, 1852-85; Lady Kofoworola Abeni Ademola, 1913-2002; George Frederick Hall, 1891-1972; Alain Leroy Locke, 1885-1954; James Arthur Harley, 1873-1943; Female Rhodes Scholars; Carla Peterman, 1968-present; Dr Susan Rice, 1964-present; Karen Leslie Stevenson, 1956-present; Prime Ministers and Presidents; Eric Williams, 1911-81; Sir Grantley Adams, 1898-1971; Tom Adams, 1931-85; Norman Manley, 1893-1969; Sir Seretse Khama, 1921-80
Kofi Abrefa Busia, 1913-78Legal Eagles; Edward T. Nelson, 1874-1940; Pixley Ka Isaka Seme, 1881-1951; Sir Samuel Forster, 1873-1933 and Wilfred Davidson Carrol, 1900-41; Educationalists; Ralston Milton (Rex) Nettleford, 1933-2010; Florence Mahoney, 1929-present; Loyiso Nongxa, 1954-present; Professor Stuart Hall, 1932-present; Creativity and Literature; Lushington Wendell Bruce-James 1891-1968 (Known as Bruce Wendell); David Upshal, 1967-present; Abena Pokua Adompim Busia, 1953-present; Caryl Phillips, 1958-present; Other Notable Graduates; Back matter; Further Reading; Acknowledgements
Summary Oxford University has attracted and produced many of the world's most original thinkers over the centuries. It boasts heads of states, academics, writers, actors, scientists, philosophers and many other luminaries among its alumni. On any tour of the University and colleges famous ex-students Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Margaret Thatcher to name a few are often mentioned but what about its Black scholars? The University has a long but little known history of attracting Black scholars from Afri ..
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Subject University of Oxford -- History
SUBJECT University of Oxford fast
Subject College students, Black -- England -- Oxford -- History
Education -- England -- Oxford -- History
Students, Black -- England -- Oxford -- History
College students, Black
Education
Education.
Social Sciences.
Education, Special Topics.
England -- Oxford
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781909930148
1909930148
9781909930131
190993013X