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Negro and white students from six Texas institutions as they marched on April 27 toward the steps of the state capitol in Austin, 1949

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  1. African Americans
  2. Austin
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Demonstrations
  5. Education
  6. Photographic Prints
  7. Segregation
  8. Students
  9. Texas

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Shown above entering the State Capitol Building at Austin, Texas, the afternoon of April 27 are lead-off marchers in a line of 75 college students from five Texas Negro colleges and the University of Texas, on the way to the galleries of the Legislature to picket that body in the interest of abolishing segregation in education Seen leading the line are Donald Jones, NAACP Regional Secretary, W. Astor Kirk and J.H. Morton, instructors at Tillotson and Samuel Huston Colleges, respectively / Depicted carrying their signs just before entering the registrar's office of the University of Texas at Austin on the morning of April 27, where they and two other students made application for entry into graduate schools, 37 college seniors from Bishop, Wiley and Jarvis Colleges pose in the shadow of UT's imposing library building, visible in the background Later these students, joined by others from Austin's colleges including 11 white youngsters from the University of Texas, picketed the legislature and a selected group conferred with Governor Beauford Jester. All applicants were denied admission / George Washington Carver Branch (John Fisher mural), Austin, TX [graphic]. NAACP photographs of schools and activities to eliminate segregation in education at the college and secondary levels King--Mississippi Summer Project, miscellaneous files (Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Z: Accessions, M82-445, Box 1, Folder 21) [Crowd of students, sightseers, and the press waiting outside Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas] [Civil War veterans at United Confederate Veterans reunion] Senor Vigues, wife and 5 children - live in this homemade shack opposite American-Mexican "Jim Crow" housing project, "Santa Rita" Oral history interview with Charles McDew, 2001 Council of Federated Organizations Shaw Office-- Records, 1964-1965 (Archives Main Stacks, SC 3063) Shirah--Proposals, prospectuses, and reports, re: SSOC, SCEF, Louisville (Kentucky) Projects, White Southern Student Project, and Other Organizations, 1962-1964, undated (Samuel C. Shirah, Jr., papers, 1961-1964; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 540, Box 1, Folder 5) SAVF-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (Social Action vertical file, circa 1930-2002; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 577, Box 48, Folder 7) SAVF-Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) papers (Social Action vertical file, circa 1930-2002; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 577, Box 16, Folder 6) Beech--Ministers' Project volunteers' reports, February-August 19, 1964 (Robert Beech Papers, 1963-1972; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 945, Box 6, Folder 6) SAVF-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (Social Action vertical file, circa 1930-2002; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 577, Box 48, Folder 11) [Henry Doyle seated at a desk at the University of Texas] Howard University students picket the National Crime Conference in Washington, D.C., Dec., 1934 when the leaders of the conference refused to discuss lynching as a national crime [NAACP youth and student members marching with signs protesting Texas segregation laws, Houston, Texas] Break up demonstration [Police hauling man from street]
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