Sun Sentinel
It’s been a long time since Florida’s university system was put to such disgrace as the Board of Governors did Tuesday in rejecting the distinguished scholar Santa Ono as the lone finalist for president of the University of Florida.
It’s seven decades, in fact, since acting Gov. Charley Johns blackballed a UF presidential candidate for having desegregated the University of Louisville.
After his return to the Legislature, in 1957, Johns and other racist lawmakers declared the Supreme Court’s school desegregation decisions null and void, which Gov. LeRoy Collins called an “evil thing.”
That Legislature spawned the notorious Johns Committee, named for its instigator, that tried to smear the fight for civil rights as a communist plot. Failing that, it spent years rampaging through universit
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