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From the New York Times:
As she prepares for her commencement at the University of North Texas here on Saturday, Burlyce Sherrell Logan can still hear the words the institution's president spoke at her freshman welcoming ceremony.
"'There are some people here - you know who you are - that we don't want here, but the state says can be here,' " she recalled the president telling the class of 2,155, clearly referring to her and the dozen other African-Americans among them. "He said we couldn't eat in the cafeteria, we couldn't live on campus. They set up a little area, with a little television, for us to be in when we weren't in class."
That was in 1956. What followed were two brutal years in which, Ms. Logan said, people threw rocks at her, pushed her in front of a moving car and burned a cross on the lawn of the house where she and five others boarded.
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