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Helen Neal
1927–2013
United States
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Biography
Helen Louise Elliott Neal, along with Marvell White, was the first American black graduate of West Texas State University in 1962. In 2019, the school, now named West Texas A & M University, opened the Nathaniel and Helen Neal Multicultural Suite to commemorate her experience. She was born Helen Louise Elliot on September 17, 1927, in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States.
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