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Sam Oni

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Photograph of Sam Oni, who was one of the first students of African descent to attend Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. He wears a jacket and tie; he faces forward and smiles. Oni, a convert of Baptist missionaries in Ghana, began attending Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, in the fall of 1963.
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  1. Baptist Converts
  2. Baptist Universities And Colleges
  3. Baptists
  4. Civil Rights
  5. Civil Rights Workers
  6. College Students
  7. Converts
  8. Georgia
  9. Ghanaians
  10. Macon
  11. Men
  12. Mercer University
  13. Oni, Sam, 1941
  14. Segregation
  15. Universities

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