Arvarh-Strickland-Obituary

Arvarh Strickland

Obituary

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - A retired University of Missouri historian who broke racial barriers as the school's first tenured black professor has died.

The university announced Wednesday that Arvarh Strickland died on Tuesday. He was 82.

Strickland retired from the university in 1996 but remained active in Columbia as a community leader. The university honored him in 2007 by renaming what had been known as the General Classroom Building as Arvarh E. Strickland Hall.

Strickland joined the Missouri faculty in 1969 from Chicago State College. He grew up in rural Mississippi, attended Tougaloo College and earned his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Services for Strickland are scheduled for Saturday morning at Missouri United Methodist Church in Columbia, with internment at Memorial Park Cemetery.


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A GREAT MAN WHO DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO EDUCATION...JOB WELL DONE...PRAYERS and BLESSINGS

My Condolence to Mr. strickland family. May God gives all of you comfort and streght to cope with this difficult time. 1 cor. 1:4

May the God of all comfort and peace be with your dear memories.

Godspeed, Mr. Strickland. A remarkable man indeed.

May peace & blessing's continue to be with Mr.Strickland as he rest in Paradise..

Dr. Skrickland sounds like he was a remarkable man. May God bless his love ons.

I so sorry to hear of your loss may he god of all comfort be with you and your family at his time 2 corth 1:3, 4

GOD! BLESS!

My prays go out to the family & friends. I read his obitary and printed it to add to my Black History Book. He was someone to be very proud of!!!