Posts tagged ‘Texas Christian University’

December 31, 2023

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

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February 17, 2011

UT spearheads SWC integration

Integration of athletics announced in an Associated Press story in the November 10, 1963, Daily Texan, with a local interview with Darrell Royal. (Click image to enlarge.)