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Who's Going to Teach Us is a riveting novel, highlighting four brave men and their decades of adversities with waging war to incorporate African American Studies as a PhD program in higher education during the 1900s, and against all odds. Willie Mayes inspires two men, (Allen Lockett and Garrett Woods) to go to battle with assimilating African American Studies into American collegiate education, amid Stokeford University's President, Douglas R. Stingle thwarting Mayes' vision. Neither Allen nor Woods are aware that their resolve will inspire their successors, Willard Mansberry and Bordecai Jones to seek an even grander pursuit! Willard's unyielding determination to carry on a worthy cause not only restructures higher education in the twentieth century but it also revolutionizes Black History through the merits of a life-defining question raised by Willard. During the early 1900s, racial inequalities for African Americans had been in existence for almost three centuries. Led by Willie Mayes' inspiration, the time arrives for a new era of innovative ideas; Willie shares an idea that gives birth to an undeniable legacy. Amongst his many ingenious ideas is one that inspires his protégé, Allen Lockett to restructure higher education in America. In 1941, Allen brings Willie Mayes' agenda to Stokeford University. Allen understands that education is the agent of change-but not just any education. His new acumen sparks the start of a weekly newspaper journal, Negro Facts, which Stokeford's President, Douglas R. Stingle disrupts. Ultimately, this leads to Allen's resignation in 1943 but his passionate efforts don't go unnoticed. (Garrett Woods is the first to take notice of Allen's efforts.) Several years later, in 1953, Stokeford's former student turned professor, Willard Mansberry is inspired by Woods' and Lockett's endeavors to start an African American Studies course at Stokeford. Ten years later, after Woods and Lockett turn up missing and are presum