Donald Randolph Brown Sr. (died July 2009) was the first African American to attend dental school at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Dentistry in 1961, and the first to graduate, in 1965. Racism and segregation were common at that time, and some of the school's patients would refuse to let the two African American students treat them. However, according to Jones, speaking in 2007, "Dean Hamilton Robinson and Assistant Dean Jack Wells refused to negotiate. "They would say, 'Either they work on you or nobody works on you.'"
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| - Donald Randolph Brown Sr. (died July 2009) was the first African American to attend dental school at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Dentistry in 1961, and the first to graduate, in 1965. Racism and segregation were common at that time, and some of the school's patients would refuse to let the two African American students treat them. However, according to Jones, speaking in 2007, "Dean Hamilton Robinson and Assistant Dean Jack Wells refused to negotiate. "They would say, 'Either they work on you or nobody works on you.'" (en)
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| - Donald Randolph Brown Sr. (died July 2009) was the first African American to attend dental school at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Dentistry in 1961, and the first to graduate, in 1965. Racism and segregation were common at that time, and some of the school's patients would refuse to let the two African American students treat them. However, according to Jones, speaking in 2007, "Dean Hamilton Robinson and Assistant Dean Jack Wells refused to negotiate. "They would say, 'Either they work on you or nobody works on you.'" Due to the tension of the times, Brown's name was "accidentally" omitted from the program on the day of his graduation, leaving his name off the program, and off the list of graduates in the local newspaper. After graduation, Brown was sent to California to work at the Veteran's Administration Hospital (the VA) where people were "more progressive" and were more likely to accept "his kind". Brown lived his life disenfranchised from the school. The school's acknowledgement took place in the form of a ceremony hosted by Dental School Dean, Marsha Pyle, and Chancellor of UMKC Leo Morton. (en)
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