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Autobiography Of George Washington Owens: First African American Graduate Of Kansas State University, Anthony R. Crawford
Autobiography Of George Washington Owens: First African American Graduate Of Kansas State University, Anthony R. Crawford
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George Washington Owens was the son of former slaves who migrated to Kansas in the early 1870s to find free land, finally settling in Wabaunsee County, Kansas, near Alma. It was there that he was born in 1875. In his handwritten autobiography, Owens chronicles the difficulties and successes of working hard growing up on the plains and as a student at District School #3 of Alma, and then at Kansas State Agricultural College. After learning that no African American had graduated from KSAC (now Kansas State University), “he resolved to be the first.” He did so, graduating in 1899. Owens …