Gordon Daniel Morgan was born in Mayflower, Faulkner County, Arkansas on October 31, 1931.
After earning his B.A. in sociology from the Arkansas AM&N College in Pine Bluff, he served in the US Army during the Korean War. He then received his M.A. from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville in 1956. After teaching in Conway and Pine Bluff, he earned his Ph.D. at Washington State University in 1961. He became the first black professor hired by the University of Arkansas in 1969.
His publications include The Edge of Campus and America without Ethnicity.
He and his wife established the Gordon D. and Izola P. Morgan Graduate Fellowship in Sociology at Washington State University and the Gordon Morgan Family Scholarship for minority students at the University of Arkansas.
Morgan passed away on December 17, 2019.
#1: Composite image of early photo of Gordon Morgan and still frame from Pryor Center video interview
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#2: UAPB newspaper picture of Gordon Morgan when he resigned from the vice presidency of Student Government
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#3: Gordon Morgan's UAPB senior class activities, 1953
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#4: Gordon Morgan (right) with George Watkins and Evelyn Murrell in newspaper article, 1953
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#5: Gordon Morgan in the Sigma Rho Sigma Honor Society at UAPB
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#6: Gordon Morgan in the UAPB choir
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#7: Gordon Morgan with his three children, Marian, Marsha, and Bryan
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#8: Gordon Morgan at the podium as guest speaker at a banquet
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#9: Gordon Morgan in Trinidad
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#10: Gordon Morgan's brother, Thomas, on the tarmac
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#11: Gordon and Izola Morgan dressed as extras for The Blue and the Gray TV miniseries
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#12: Gordon Morgan with his mother, nephew, sister, brother, and sister-in-law
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#13: Gordon Morgan with his sister, Geraldine Smith, cousin, and sister, Bobbie Duberry.
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#14: Gordon Morgan with his family
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#15: Gordon Morgan at a banquet
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#16: Gordon Morgan's mother, Georgia Morgan, and his uncle in Conway, Arkansas
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#17: Silas Hunt Legacy Award portrait of Gordon Morgan, 2006
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#18: Gordon Morgan's sketches
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#19: Gordon Morgan's sketch of an Ayatollah, 1987
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#20: Gordon Morgan's sketch of a house, 1982
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#21: Gordon Morgan's sketch of a house
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#22: Gordon Morgan's sketch, "The Lonely Scholar," 1991
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#23: Gordon Morgan's officer commission from the army, 1959
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#24: Certificate of Appreciation to Gordon Morgan from the Arkansas Board of Correction, 1992
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#25: Certificate of Appreciation to Gordon Morgan from St. James UMC Choir Director, 1996
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#26: Gordon Morgan's Golden Key National Honor Society honorary membership certificate awarded in 1997
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#27: Cover of The Edge of Campus: A Journal of the Black Experience at the University of Arkansas by Gordon D. Morgan and Izola Preston
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#28: Still frame from Pryor Center video interivew with Gordon Morgan; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2006
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#29: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Gordon Morgan; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2006
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#30: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Gordon Morgan; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2006
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#31: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Gordon Morgan; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2006
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#32: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Gordon Morgan; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2006
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#33: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Gordon Morgan; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2006
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas
