By The Editors
The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, a black churchman who forged a distinctive career in the historic position of chief minister to Harvard University, died Monday evening at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

The desegregation of the University of Oklahoma, accomplished in the late 1940s via two legal challenges, Sipuel v. Oklahoma and McLaurin v. Oklahoma, was an important part of the comprehensive legal strategy that Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall had mapped out to destroy the legal foundations of segregation in America.

Charles Chatman was only 20 years old in 1981 when a jury found him guilty of raping a 52-year-old woman in her Dallas, TX, home and sentenced him to 99 years in prison.

On February 26, 2008, after twenty-seven years of wrongful incarceration, the charges against him were dropped. At age 47, Charles Chatman finally walked free.