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Forrest O. Wiggins, 1947. Hired by the University of Minnesota as an instructor in Philosophy, Prof. Wiggins was the first African American to teach at the University of Minnesota. Dismissed from the University in 1951, Wiggins believed the reasoning was directly related to his socialist ideology.

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A preview of Calling to Question: 150 of Liberal Education at the University of Minnesota…

Noah BarthSeptember 28, 2018

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