Special Note: Black Oakwood University students and faculty have a rich history of protest and fighting tirelessly for their civil rights. There is much to omit for timeliness and length of the following story of the University’s founding. Oakwood University has a rich history of being a civil rights battleground. The students showed great bravery and intellectual prowess to access the full opportunities of the institution that was made for them. OU has a controversial history regarding its founding. The white founders of the SDA church held typical attitudes befitting the late 1800s toward Black Americans. They adopted a “Principle
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