Jul 10, 2014
Overcoming Isolation in the Early Years of Integration: Exalton Delco and Norcell Haywood
Segregation was a pervasive social, political and economic construction that had been established many years before integration became a university-wide…
Jul 10, 2014
Mother, Mentor, Mediator – The Contributions of Almetris “Mama” Duren
Almetris Marsh Duren was teaching home economics at Huston-Tillotson College when she got a call from The University…
Jun 03, 2014
An Introduction to Color Barriers at UT
In the wake of World War II (1941-45) African Americans mobilized in unprecedented numbers to lobby for an…
Jun 01, 2014
A Dignified Response: Heman Marion Sweatt
Although Texas differed little from Mississippi or Alabama in resisting the dismantling of segregation, Texas’ white citizens were perceived as…