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The 220-LB. Sheriff with the nightstick mentality, glaciers of voter registration, blacks are waiting for the rain, all these symbols of shame at Selma, Ala., were the titles of news and photos for five weeks. But Selma has its assets, and one of them is Dr. James H. Owens, a professional educator and pfeffrige Negro, is fighting bravely to maintain is only Negro College lives.
Owens, build and encourage them to 64, readily acknowledges that his university is wild Selma misleading. It is not a full university, much less a university, since only three students studying theology for four years. It can not obtain accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, even as a Junior College, because there is not science building, pays its Faculty of $ 1000 less than the minimum required $ 4500 and no teacher proficiency in science, mathematics, English business or social sciences. Owens’ problem is money. In the gifts of shares, he said, “always the run-around, because you’re not accredited. But if you have a little money than me, you could buy the equipment and accredited personnel. It’s the old story, he also received “.
“Blickte and left.” Owens came to Selma And as president in 1956 after 26 years in education. The son of an Acme, NC, plant fireman, he worked at railway jobs to finance his studies in chemistry and french in Richmond Virginia Union University. He earned a Master’s Degree in psychology at the University of Michigan. He taught at Mississippi’s Tougaloo College and for 13 years at the University of Leland Baker, in his chair. When he was first U. Selma, Owens, remembers: “I looked, turned around and left.” Then, after the decision that the chairman of the mission would be “a real challenge and I stupid enough to do things, like my whole life, “and he accepted.
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