Shabazz begins with the creation of the Texas University Movement in the 1880s to lobby for equal access to the full range of graduate and professional education through a first-class university for African Americans. He traces the philosophical, legal, and grassroots components of the later campaign to open all Texas colleges and universities to black students, showing the complex range of strategies and the diversity of ideology and methodology on the part of black activists and intellectuals working to promote educational equality. Shabazz credits the efforts of blacks who fought for change by demanding better resources for segregated black colleges in the years before Brown, showing how crucial groundwork for nationwide desegregation was laid in the state of Texas.
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As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), it is important to consider the historical struggles that led to this groundbreaking decision. Four years earlier in Texas, the Sweatt v. Painter decision allowed blacks access to the University of Texas's law school for the first time. Amilcar Shabazz shows that the development of black higher education in Texas--which has historically had one of the largest state college and university systems in the South--played a pivotal role in the challenge to Jim Crow education.
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Before black Texans had their own history, schools, churches, warriors, martyrs, and women and men of big affairs, they had Juneteenth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
interracial conciliation, collegiate desegregation, southwestern regional office, college desegregation, separate equality, private black colleges, negro branch, system regents, primitive years, regional counsel, admitting blacks, black higher education, negro students, black undergraduates, black freedom struggle, first black students Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prairie View, University of Texas, Supreme Court, Jim Crow, United States, Fort Worth, Carter Wesley, Heman Sweatt, San Antonio, African American, Big Spring, Thurgood Marshall, Wichita Falls, Maceo Smith, Corpus Christi, Del Mar, Lulu White, Sul Ross, Texas University Movement, New York, Port Arthur, Price Daniel, Samuel Huston College, Walter White, Sam Houston New!
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interracial conciliation, collegiate desegregation, southwestern regional office, college desegregation, separate equality, private black colleges, negro branch, system regents, primitive years, regional counsel, admitting blacks, black higher education, negro students, black undergraduates, black freedom struggle, first black students Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prairie View, University of Texas, Supreme Court, Jim Crow, United States, Fort Worth, Carter Wesley, Heman Sweatt, San Antonio, African American, Big Spring, Thurgood Marshall, Wichita Falls, Maceo Smith, Corpus Christi, Del Mar, Lulu White, Sul Ross, Texas University Movement, New York, Port Arthur, Price Daniel, Samuel Huston College, Walter White, Sam Houston New!
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- Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1956-1961 by Mark V. Tushnet on 7 pages
- A Chance to Learn: The History of Race and Education in the United States by Meyer Weinberg on 4 pages
- The Establishment in Texas Politics: The Primitive Years, 1938-1957 (Contributions in Political Science) by George Norris Green on 4 pages
- Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South During the 1950's by Numan V. Bartley on 4 pages
- Encyclopedia of Texas Colleges and Universities: An Historic Profile by Donald W. Whisenhunt on 4 pages
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- History of Universities: Volume XXI/1 (History of Universities Series) by Mordechai Feingold in Back Matter
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