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In 1962, Ken Coleman arrived at the campus of The Ohio State University with a big dream: to graduate and find a job as a math teacher. It might not seem all that audacious today, but this was the early 1960s, and Coleman was a young African-American man living in the town of Centralia in downstate Illinois. And neither his mother, a maid, nor his father, a day laborer, graduated high school. Still, none of those things kept Coleman from chasing his dreams — which, as it turned out, went well beyond becoming a math teacher. Because of his experience
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BTN.com staff via Big Ten Network
In 1962, Ken Coleman arrived at the campus of The Ohio State University with a big dream: to graduate and find a job as a math teacher. It might not seem all that audacious today, but this was the early 1960s, and Coleman was a young African-American man living in the town of Centralia in downstate Illinois. And neither his mother, a maid, nor his father, a day laborer, graduated high school. Still, none of those things kept Coleman from chasing his dreams — which, as it turned out, went well beyond becoming a math teacher. Because of his experience
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