Integrating the 40 acres : the fifty-year struggle for racial equality at the University of Texas / Dwonna Goldstone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldstone, Dwonna Naomi, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College integration--Texas--History.

College integration.

African Americans--Education (Higher)--Texas--History.

African Americans.

University of Texas at Austin--Students--History.

University of Texas at Austin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Integrating the 40 acres : the 50-year struggle for racial equality at the University of Texas

Integrating the forty acres

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

You name it, we can't do it. That was how one African American student at the University of Texas at Austin summed up his experiences in a 1960 newspaper article-some ten years after the beginning of court-mandated desegregation at the school. In this first full-length history of the university's desegregation, Dwonna Goldstone examines how, for decades, administrators only gradually undid the most visible signs of formal segregation while putting their greatest efforts into preventing true racial integration. In response to the 1956 Board of Regents decision to admit African American undergraduates, for example, the dean of students and the director of the student activities center stopped scheduling dances to prevent racial intermingling in a social setting. Goldstone's coverage ranges from the 1950 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the University of Texas School of Law had to admit Heman Sweatt, an African American, through the 1994 Hopwood v. Texas decision, which ended affirmative action in the state's public institutions of higher education. She draws on oral histories, university documents, and newspaper accounts to detail how the university moved from open discrimination to foot-dragging acceptance to mixed successes in the integration of athletics, classrooms, dormitories, extracurricular activities, and student recruitment. Goldstone incorporates not only the perspectives of university administrators, students, alumni, and donors, but also voices from all sides of the civil rights movement at the local and national level. This instructive story of power, race, money, and politics remains relevant to the modern university and the continuing question about what it means to be integrated.

Contents:

African Americans at the School of Law, 1950-1970

Desegregation of educational facilities, 1956-1963

Desegregation on and off campus

Dormitory integration, 1950-1964

Black integration of the athletic program, 1950-1970

Desegregation from 1964 to the present.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613267955

9781283267953

1283267950

9780820342030

0820342033

OCLC:

753976366