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Modern Times Lecture Series: Black Influences On The Founding of the University of Texas at Austin
UT desegregated in 1958, but long before that Black men and women were having a profound impact on its development and relationship with the city of Austin. Dr. Edmund T. Gordon discusses Black Texans’ influence on the founding of the University of Texas and details Black involvement and exclusion from the school’s early history. Join in person or online.