Mary Jean Price Walls was born in 1932 in Nogo, Missouri, a town since incorporated into Strafford. She was the first black applicant to Missouri State University, after graduating salutatorian from Lincoln School in Springfield, Missouri. Due to existing segregation at the time, however, the university ignored her application. Without a response, she was prevented from gaining admission to the all-white University. Four years later, around the time Walls would have received her Bachelor's degree, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to deny black children the same education that is offered to white students, in the historic Brown V. Board of Education case. However, it was too late for Mary Price Walls, who went on to work as an elevator operator and janitor.
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| - Mary Jean Price Walls was born in 1932 in Nogo, Missouri, a town since incorporated into Strafford. She was the first black applicant to Missouri State University, after graduating salutatorian from Lincoln School in Springfield, Missouri. Due to existing segregation at the time, however, the university ignored her application. Without a response, she was prevented from gaining admission to the all-white University. Four years later, around the time Walls would have received her Bachelor's degree, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to deny black children the same education that is offered to white students, in the historic Brown V. Board of Education case. However, it was too late for Mary Price Walls, who went on to work as an elevator operator and janitor. (en)
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| - Mary Jean Price Walls was born in 1932 in Nogo, Missouri, a town since incorporated into Strafford. She was the first black applicant to Missouri State University, after graduating salutatorian from Lincoln School in Springfield, Missouri. Due to existing segregation at the time, however, the university ignored her application. Without a response, she was prevented from gaining admission to the all-white University. Four years later, around the time Walls would have received her Bachelor's degree, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to deny black children the same education that is offered to white students, in the historic Brown V. Board of Education case. However, it was too late for Mary Price Walls, who went on to work as an elevator operator and janitor. In 2010, Walls was given an honorary degree when her son, a current student at MSU, uncovered that she was their first black applicant in 1950. Walls had hopes of becoming a school teacher. (en)
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