Awards
• The University of Arkansas has established the Silas Hunt Legacy Awards to honor distinguished black alumni of the university. In 1948, Hunt, a law school student, was the first African American to enroll at the university since Reconstruction. He died from tuberculosis in 1949 before earning his degree.
The 10 recipients of the initial Silas Hunt Legacy Awards are:
- Gerald Alley, CEO of Con-Real Support, a real estate and construction firm in Texas
- Margaret Clark, one of the first black faculty members at the University of Arkansas
- Randall Ferguson, a recently retired executive at IBM
- George W. Haley, the second black graduate of the law school and a leading attorney in the field of international law
- E. Lynn Harris, the author of six best-selling novels
- Edith Irby Jones, the first black graduate of the School of Medicine and the first woman president of the National Medical Association
- Bobby W. Jones, deputy commander of the 67th combat support hospital in Tikrit, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom
- Janis Kearney, the personal diarist of President Bill Clinton
- Gordon Morgan, university professor of sociology at the University of Arkansas
- Rodney Slater, attorney and former U.S. secretary of transportation
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