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Thurgood Marshall George W. McLaurin (1909-2009) was the first African-American to attend the University of Oklahoma. George held a masters degree from the University of Kansas and was a retired professor living in Oklahoma City. Before retirement he taught at an all-black college, Langston University. He was accepted into the University of Oklahoma in 1948 due to the supreme court trial of [|McLaurin vs Oklahoma] which enabled African Americans to be admitted to graduate education at the University of Oklahoma on a segregated basis. Currently, there is a meeting named after George A. McLaurin on the campus called The George McLaurin Male Leadership Conference. The conference is mainly intended for the recruitment of first-generation college students, and particularly those within minority groups.