Black Leaders: Texans for Their Times: Searching Inside

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... for male instructors, in 1935. 32. Griffenhagen and Associates, The Government of the State of Texas... for Negroes in Texas, Prairie View A & M College, Prairie View, Texas; Mrs. M. E. V. Hunter to G. R. W., Sept.... 21, 1950, interview. 24. Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College, Rules andRegulattons... of the Texas Interscholastic League of Colored Schools of Texas (Prairie View, 1941), 5-8. 25. E. R. Embree... agent for agricultural education, to Banks, Jan. 8, 1930, Thomas E. Jones, president of Fisk University

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... in Texas" (M.A. thesis, Prairie View University, 1945), 29; William ("Gooseneck Bill") McDonald Folder... York, 1927-1950). His death was reported in Jessie Parkhurst Guzman (ed.), Negro Yearbook, 1952, (New...- Telegram, quoted in Texas Writers' Project, Fort Worth and Tarrant County, Texas (Fort Worth, 1941), 19870.... Information on the 1887 student strike at Roger Williams University can be found in James M. McPherson, "White... the Plum Tree, 82; Lawrence D. Rice, The Negro in Texas, 1874-1900 (Baton Rouge, 1971), 197. 11. Bundy

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..., 2-9/125 OFB 69-14, (Archives Division, Texas State Library, Austin); Deed signed by William Goyens, Oct.... 13, 1841, Henry Raguet Papers (Archives, University of Texas at Austin). 38. Schoen, "Free Negro... in the Republic of Texas," XL, 105-106. 39. Nacogdoches County Tax Roll, 1840 (Archives, Stephen F. Austin State....), The 1840 Census of the Republic of Texas (Austin, 1966), 125. 40 United States Seventh Census (1850...; Lundy, Life, Travels, and Optntons, 117. 31. H. P. N. Gammel (comp.) The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 (10

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...: The Movement for First Class Citizenship in Texas, 1920-1950" (SSc.D. diss , Syracuse University, 1962), 138...: Racial Ideologies in the Age of Booker T. Washington (Ann Arbor, 1966), 248, 255. 63. McDonald to W. L.... McDonald, speech at Dallas, Texas, in 1921, in Bundy, McDonald, 240.

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... from turmoil in 1965-1966, when John taught at the University of Wisconsin as guest professor... unrest grew at Texas Southern and "brotherhood" became a word reserved for one's race rather than for all... themselves, to find their way in life." In the 1960s, as all recall, pressure was put on every university... of solid accomplishment, and the holder of a doctorate from a leading university, was a prime target

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... in the Reconstruction of Florida, 1865-1870, Florida State University Studies No. 46 (Tallahassee, 1965); Okon Edet Uya..., 1952, reprint, 1966) 54-67; Williamson, After Slavery; Joe Martin Richardson, The Negro

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..., Missouri (1921 and 1929) and West Virginia (1927) opted for out-of-state aid for blacks. North Carolina... out-of-state aid or improvement of Texas institutions. 39 The legislature chose outof-state aid. The crisis had... of the black colleges on the other. The Supreme Court ruled in December, 1938 (Lloyd Gaines v. University... of Missoun), that the southern states, even though most stood for either aid in out-of-state (South...) or "regional" schools, must educate blacks in their own states.37 The handwriting was on the wall. North

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.... Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas; and Downtown Branch, Houston Public Library, Houston, Texas...'s "William Goyens, Free Negro on the Texas Frontier" (M.A. thesis, Stephen F Austin State University, 1963..., The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1943), 192-221 3 U S , Bureau of the Census... of scholarly articles on the free Negro in Texas were written in the 1930s and 1940s by Harold Schoen... and Andrew Forest Muir. Schoen's "The Free Negro in the Republic of Texas" is a series of articles published

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... County, Texas (Archives, University of Texas at Austin); The name has been variously spelled Goyen...," 4-5; Nacogdoches Archives, Aug. 16, 1826, (Archives Division, Texas State Library, Austin), xxx, 59-62... of the American Revolution, North Carolina Roster of Soldiers of North Carolina in the American Revolutton (Durham..., N.C., 1932), 462, 576. 8. John M. Goings Petition from North Carolina, Mar. 1, 1852, Deed Records, Vol.... F, 303-305, (Cherokee County Courthouse, Rusk, Texas). 9. Amelia W. Williams and Eugene C. Barker

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..., Secretary of State's Papers (Archives Division, Texas State Library, Austin); U.S , Department... Atlanta University and held positions at Prairie View State Normal And Industrial College and Houston... Black Leaders Eleventh Street on the north, and 1,316 feet of Chalmers Street on the west..., Austin, Texas); Williams, "History of Tillotson College," 13-14; Jones, "Tillotson College, from... Eby, The Development of Education in Texas (New York, 1925), 276-277; C[ecil] E[ugene] Evans

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... Vanguard, 201; Dallas Express, July 15, 1950; Texas Writers' Project, Fort Worth, 20692, 22455, 22459... ("Gooseneck Bill") McDonald Folder, Lewis Notes; Texas Writers' Project, Fort Worth, 21907-21908, 22457 53.... Texas Writers' Project, Fort Worth, 20692. 54. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 12, 1950; Kansas City Call..., Feb. 2, 1940; Texas Writers' Project, Fort Worth, 20692, 21907-21908, 22457-22458; Bundy, McDonald, 39...; Dallas Morning News, Sept. 18, 1949; Texas Writers' Project, Fort Worth, 19285-19286; Arnett G. Lindsay

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... photographed for reproduction in Black Art in Houston. The Texas Southern University Experience, written... by Biggers and Simms with the editorial assistance ofJohn Edward Weems and published by Texas A&M University... Biggers's native state of North Carolina honored him in ways which touched him deeply. In Raleigh, Gover

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... too poor to go North and could be better trained in Texas to face southern conditions.40 Second..., with tongue in cheek, that it stood third in Texas only to Rice and the University of Texas. The Forty-fifth... of Negroes in the state. Say what one will in the defense of Banks's position, the real dilemma of the black..., Prairie View should set its schedules to serve as a shock absorber for the state after the Gaines..., Oklahoma, and Texas, the association chose Prairie View as the regional center for professional studies

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..., Frederick, 121 Pennsylvania State University, 205, 206 Perkins, Marion: book by, 192 Perry, Heman, 162, 164... Texans for Their Times Oxford, North Carolina, 200 Paine College, 149 Painter, Theophilus Shickel... Poor, Varnum, 205 population: of blacks in Texas, 1860, p. 19 Populist party, ix, 83, 132 Porter, James..., Thomas B., 98 religion: slave, 4-5 Republic of Texas, 29; Congress of, 26 Republican Lincoln League, 99... The Rites of Passage (mural), 218 Robertson County, 53 Roger Williams University, 86, 87 Roll, Jordan, Roll

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..., 192, 193, 206-219; see also Texas State University for Negroes Texas State Conference of NAACP... Branches, 159, 160, 172 Texas State Library, 59 Texas State University for Negroes, 170, 176, 177, 180; see..., 183-184; University of Texas student, 181-182; wife, 164, 166, 173, 175, 182 Sweatt, Jack, 163, 166... University Press: book published by, 218 Texas Association of College Teachers, 214 Texas Centennial, 37, 143... Texas College, 133 Texas Colored State Fair Association, 87, 100 Texas Interscholastic League of Colored

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... of the History of the Black People of Texas, 1930-1954" (Ph.D. diss., Texas Tech University, 1972), 510; Houston...: A History" (Ph.D. diss., Texas Tech University, 1969); and Sapper, "Black People of Texas." Rice, Glasrud... University. See also Alwyn Barr, Black Texans: A Hstory of Negroes in Texas, 1528-1971 (Austin, 1973); Lamar... Texans for Their Times 107 13. Texas Writers' Project, Fort Worth, 22457.... 14. Houston Informer, Nov. 14, 1925; Texas Writers' Project, Fort Worth, 22458. 15. Charles W

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... for blacks. In 1947 he became vicechairman of the board of regents for Texas State University for Negroes... taught at the University of Texas."47 A&M's board was to put this mandate into operation and see... to it that these courses were "substantially equivalent" to those at the University of Texas in Austin. Banks could have... case of the University of Texas in Austin was in the wind. A&M had submitted to the Forty-ninth..., later Texas Southern University. Although he continued to live at Prairie View, he served on the boards

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..., to be located in Houston. Thus was born Texas State University for Negroes, which made use of the existing land... at the University of Texas. Furthermore, to give added semblance of equality, legislators changed the name... of Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College to Prairie View University. After Senator L. J. Sulak... at the University of Texas, the senate voted unanimously for the bill's passage. The House, with only five... and buildings of Houston College for Negroes.35 It would later become Texas Southern University. Yet in order

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... could legally attend the University of Texas. But, in Sellers's view, a suitable law course could be set... that the state's refusal to admit Sweatt to the university constituted a denial of his Fourteenth Amendment..., Texas's white newspapers had discussed a possible legal action by Negroes to open the University... Texans for Their Times 169 "Texas' wise and long-continued policy... recommended that the association have blacks apply for admission to the university's schools of medicine

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... of the University of Texas at Austin. She has published essays related to black history in the Southwestern... H. Treat is assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University. He has presented papers..., including ones on black history, at meetings of the Texas State Historical Association. Frank H. Wardlaw... was the founding director of three university presses-South Carolina, Texas, and Texas A&M-before he retired... Georgia Rural History Research Project for Georgia Agrirama, the state agricultural living history museum