Candidates on integration

Candidates for Student Assembly president discuss integration as reported in the March 15, 1960, Daily Texan. It was not generally known at the time that the Central Intelligence Agency provided funding to the National Students Association.

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Panorama on pickets

Mary Beth Coniglio (Rogers) writes in support of protestors’ goals in the Texan’s Panorama March 13, 1960. (Using your computers zoom-in tool may be helpful in viewing this entry.)

Protest of UT policies

A protest and letter to UT President Logan Wilson.

Regents deal with housing

Black students lack of access to housing caused the regents to convert the International Center to the Whitis Dormitory. The Daily Texan reported March 13, 1960, on their meeting.

Race relations program at “Y”

Speech by Dr. Clarence Ayres reported in March 11, 1960, Daily Texan.

Editorial on sit-ins

Texan editor Carl Howard on lunch counter sit-ins.

Role reversal imagined

This reaction to the desegregation crisis at Little Rock Central High School appeared on the March 3, 1960, Daily Texan editorial page.

An editorial

Texan editor Carl Howard advocates that Student Assembly candidates take a stand on integration, among other issues.

Race relation panel meets

A four-student panel agrees that people should be judged as individuals and not by their race or religion in this presentation covered in the February 23, 1960, Daily Texan.

Firing Line letters

The January 19, 1960, Firing Line in the Daily Texan had a letter from future stand-inners Tom DeGregori and Leonard Giesecke as well as one commenting on racial slurs at the UT-Syracuse game. (Click image to enlarge.)