Black Leaders: Texans for Their Times: Searching Inside

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...), 376-377. Harrel T. Budd, "The Negro in Politics in Texas, 1867-1898" (M.A. thesis, University of Texas..., and former slave, Henry Moore (Harrison County), WPA Slave Narratives of Texas (Archives, University of Texas... on the Condition of the State" in that body and was subsequently elected to the Twelfth Legislature. Reconstruction..., 66; Texas Almanac, 1870, 197. 31. An interesting story about Williams's generosity to his master... Republican, July 21, 1868; Rice, Negro in Texas, 92, 200. 32. Although none of the black politicians in Texas

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...., Vanderbilt University, 1974). 29. Rice, Negro in Texas, 50-51; Dallas Morning News, July 6, 1950. 30. Houston... in Texas and Its Exercise" (M.A. thesis, Colorado State College of Education, 1943), 56-57; William... Winkler (ed.), Platforms of Political Parties in Texas, Bulletin of the University of Texas, September 20... Wright Cuney and Texas Republican Politics, 1883-1896," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, LXVIII (Apr...., 1965), 455-464; Virginia Neal Hinze, "Norris Wright Cuney" (M.A. thesis, Rice University, 1965); Maud

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... Black Leaders finally broke in 1966 over the campus at TSU, culminating in violent episodes which... hoc committee merged with the local chapter of the Texas Association of College Teachers, which has

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.... 88-92. 45. Walton to Homer P. Rainey, president, University of Texas, May 6, 1942, Jackson Davis...: Dean B. F. Pittenger, University of Texas; Dean Thomas Dudley Brooks, Texas A & M; Mrs. Wessendoff...; and W. R. Banks, Prairie View. 47. Texas, Legislature, General and Special Laws of the State of Texas.... James V. Allred, Governor of Texas 1935-1939 (Austin, nd ), 241-242. 40. Banks to Walton, May 26, 1936..., Columbus; Dr. Gordon Worley, executive secretary, State Board of Education; J. J. Rhoads, Bishop College

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... was not to be at Hampton. In 1946 Victor Lowenfeld left to join the faculty of Pennsylvania State University, and John... Fayetteville, North Carolina. "We came from the same kind of background," Biggers said. Hazel was an accounting... Biggers followed him. At Penn State he earned all his degrees-Bachelor of Arts, Master of Science... black nor white, just people. There were only eleven black students at Penn State at the time...," he said. In addition to Victor Lowenfeld, several professors at Penn State influenced John Biggers

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... of Texas, VI, 959-961. 61. Brenham Banner, Sept. 1, 1871; Daily State Journal (Austin), Dec. 19, 1871. 62... Democratic Association of Fort Bend County" (M.A. thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 1938), 13-20... (Archives Division, Texas State Library, Austin); Justice of the Peace J. S Rogers to Davis, Aug. 13, 1872..., Texas State Police Letters, Archives Division, Texas State Library, Austin. Though Hee is referred... found in Election Returns, Secretary of State's Papers 69. Texas Almanac for 1873 and Emigrant's Guide

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..., Sweatt asked permission to speak. He declared that "the state has the money, and the law.... "I cannot go out of state to school, and I cannot wait indefinitely until some provision is made.'"28... He concluded by presenting his transcript and requesting admission to the university's law school.... "I just went to Austin to try to become a student at the university because that's the only place I... and eventually to practice law in Texas. Although the blacks never mentioned their intention to file a lawsuit

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.... By the time McCormick left the stand, the state's case lay virtually demolished. So devastating was Nabrit... performance, one which concentrated on a white woman, would create unfavorable press reaction in Texas... ostracized after his admission to the University of Maryland law school. Robert Redfield, testifying... which practiced it. Charles Thompson, dean of the Howard University graduate school, presented... the findings of his research on higher education for Negroes in Texas, which demonstrated the discriminatory

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... to join the faculty of her alma mater, Virginia State College. For twenty years she taught at Virginia... State. Her popularity with the students was unrivaled, and her courses, known as "Branch's English... at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and the University of Chicago. From the latter she received... the American Missionary Association to become president of Tillotson College in Austin, Texas. The decision

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... when he became president of the Texas Colored State Fair Association, which he had helped organize... University. There McDonald prepared for either the law or the ministry. Since Z. T. Adams early encouraged... for the ministry. Despite his efforts at Roger Williams University, he did not graduate, apparently because he... the time he was affiliated with the Colored State Fair Association. He and Alice Gibson married in 1888... while attending Howard University; that death was a cruel blow to McDonald." McDonald's second wife died

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... to provide leadership for the Negro citizens of Texas, Banks did not limit his talents to the campus.... To be sure, the idea of a program of service to the citizens of the state was not original with Banks. Indeed... predecessors that the ultimate answer was not a state answer but one that lay in the broader field of national... action. Despite Walton's growing protest that he spent too much time off campus and out of Texas, Banks... at Prairie View,23 with the legendary Mary E. V. Hunter and C. H. Waller; the Texas Interscholastic League

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... to that statement. "8 The last five years have seen Texas Southern University in a constant state of turmoil...' that John Biggers went to Texas to build, the quality of his own work, and the quality of his teaching can... in the hall through which passersby might watch the university's new computer! Administrative absentmindedness

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... of University of North Carolina Press, to say What the Negro Wants. Summing up the ideas of his associates... Black Leaders "protest," which had long manifested itself in the statesmanship of Texas Negroes

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... Collection, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches). 80. Texas (Republic), Congress, Senate,Journal..., 2-8/4 (Old File Box 11), Files 984-1021, May 23, 1838 (Archives Division, Texas State Library, Austin... Texans for Their Times 45 Nacogdoches Archives. 70. Texas (Republic...), Congress, Senate,Journalof the Senate of the Republic of Texas: Second Congress-Adjourned Session (Houston..., 1838), 90, 98-99, 173; Texas (Republic), Congress, House, Journal of the House of Representatives

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... with faculty members at the University of Texas, at the nearby Negro college, Samuel Huston, and with public..., and sponsored a student chapter on campus. Likewise, the State Interracial Commission of Texas claimed her... school administrators and teachers. She also brought noteworthy speakers and artists of local, state

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... of the University of Texas, President Walton of A&M, the State Board of Education, and the Commission on Interracial... in the schoolroom and the ballot box. The ideological mix and the sparse distribution of blacks in Texas encouraged... and plain speaking in his relations with Texas A&M. An inadequate budget in 1941 and E. M. Norris's graduate... of his own peculiar formulas. Could not Banks again combine northern philanthropy with Texas liberalism... for one thousand dollars to survey Negro education in Texas. Stating that President Homer Rainey

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... the number in Texas declined during the decade to 355, the state rose to fourteenth place because... with 83,942 manumitted slaves. Even though Texas was a slave state, it had one of the smallest free Negro... Black Leaders Republic of Texas," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XXXIX (Apr., 1936), 292-308... by Andrew Forest Muir, "The Free Negro in Harris County, Texas," ibid., XLVI (Jan., 1943), 214-238, "The... Free Negro in Fort Bend County, Texas,'" Journal of Negro History, XXXIII (Jan., 1948), 79-85, "The

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... Bryan Papers (Archives, University of Texas at Austin). 39. Thomas Carothers to Ballinger, Dec. 21, 1864..., Penitentiaries, 1846-1865 (Archives Division, Texas State Library, Austin). 42. That no clear distinction existed

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... Commission, 29 Naples, Texas, 207 Natchitoches, 30, 31 National Alliance of Postal Employees, 162, 165, 183... National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges: book by, 130 National Association... and Economic League of Texas, 93 Negro Frontiersman: The Western Memoirs of Henry O. Flipper, First Negro... in Reconstruction, 50 Negro Legislators of Texas, 49 Negro National Art Exhibition, Atlanta, 209 Negro Newspaper... Norris, Nathaniel, 32 Norrs Wright Cuney: A Tribune of the Black People, ix, 83 North, 60, 131 North

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... Texans for Their Times 177 University for Negroes bolstered his determination... elements in Texas. He undoubtedly felt the influence of Lulu White, whose leadership he regarded as "a... ideas held deep in the hearts of lawmakers and inherent in the political machinery of our state." Along...'s Progressive party placed on the ballot in Texas in the 1948 presidential election. So many of the people he..., nor when the Court of Civil Appeals and the Texas Supreme Court reaffirmed the lower court's ruling