1964 Texas Observer links

President Lyndon B. Johnson integrates the Forty Acres Club by inviting his secretary Geraldine Whittington to lunch there. https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1964/01/24#page=10

UT Chancellor Harry Ransom tells the general faculty that public areas in living units are no longer segregated and the Texas Relays and Longhorn Band are integrated. Athletic Director Darrell Royal announces complete integration of athletics at UT, and the UT regents approve integration of a married students’ dorm and summer seminar, completing integration in all areas of UT except student housing. https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1964/03/06#page=8

On the last page of this article, Joe B. Frantz, UT professor of history, calls the regents’ integration decision “belatedly or not” an example of the Texas tradition. https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1964/05/01#page=12

Sandra (Casey) Hayden is quoted on her experience with the Council of Federated Organizations’ Mississippi Summer Project. https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1964/05/29#page=11

A rather strange piece of fiction on campus integration by Winston Bode, followed by back-and-forth comments by Bode and Obsever Editor Ronnie Dugger. https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1964/12/25#page=1

1963 Texas Observer links

Commentary on the Texas Senate’s secret vote against John Connally’s appointment of W. St. John Garwood as a University of Texas regent. https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1963/03/07#page=15

More commentary on the Senate’s vote not to confirm Garwood. Booker T. Bonner runs for Austin City Council. https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1963/03/21#page=16

Black East Austin family’s house gets repairs from UT students meeting at University Presbyterian Church. https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1963/04/04#page=2

Ad for Booker T. Bonner’s City Council candidacy. https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1963/04/04#page=13

Four UT students, including George Goss of Alice (who was reportedly blackjacked in jail), receive vagrancy charges while in Tyler associated with efforts to integrate schools and restaurants. https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1963/05/16#page=9

Andrew Shuval (Shuvalov) elected president of the state Young Democrats. Their state convention endorses sit-ins. https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1963/05/30#page=16

Comprehensive report on integration in Texas in 1963, including integration at UT and its surroundings. Article starts here, and can be scrolled through: https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1963/06/28#page=9

Ronnie Dugger’s tribute to Medgar Evers, given at a memorial sponsored by the campus interracial committee at UT. https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1963/06/28#page=14

Article without a headline on lawsuit to integrate dormitories at UT. https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1963/07/12#page=8

Although Attorney General Waggoner Carr joined the attorneys upholding UT against integrating dormitories, he appoints Phillip Crawford as “the first Negro assistant attorney general in Texas history.” https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1963/07/12#page=9

Arrest of Sandra (Casey) Cason Hayden (on second page of article) in civil rights protest in Mississippi. https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1963/11/15#page=4

Two dozen or so UT students protest in front of Kinsolving Dormitory, with signs that say “Delay Causes President’s Daughter to be in Segregated Dorm.” However, the Observer points out that Lynda Bird Johnson has since left Kinsolving for the White House. https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1963/12/27#page=10