Decades After Dying, a Pioneer Gets Degree

By: Associated Press

TEXARKANA, Ark. - (AP) Sixty years after becoming the first black to study law at a public university in the South, the late Silas Hunt got his degree from the University of Arkansas.

Hunt died of tuberculosis before earning his law degree, but the Fayetteville campus has granted him the honor posthumously, the Texarkana Gazette reported Saturday.

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