While the exact nature an reason for this document is unspecified in the text it seems to be a recap of University policies regarding integration of the University fro 1950 to 1961. At the time this document was written it seems that the Board of…

After the Supreme Court Decision of Sweatt v. Painter, Universities across the South had to figure out how to handle applications from black students. In this particular case John Hargis had applied to the University of Texas at Austin for their…

This newspaper article published on July 13, 1955 discusses the process by which the Austin School Board was investigating how to go about integrating the schools. The article is fact-heavy without a lot of editorializing but it is still able to show…