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Huey Battle

1918–1991

United States

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Huey Jefferson Battle (October 31, 1918 – January 23, 1991) was an American economist who was an economics professor and administrator at Langston University and Virginia State University. He was the first African-American in Oklahoma to earn a doctoral degree, and was posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma State University Diversity Hall of Fame in 2017.

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