KANSAS CITY — A classmate of Sammie Burnett Johnson, one of the eight black students who marched onto the Memphis State campus in 1959 to integrate the school, is lamenting that there is now a "missing link" in their group.
Missouri woman who helped integrate Memphis State dies
Saturday, January 22, 2011 | 7:03 p.m. CST
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