{ "0": { "id": 0, "title": "1960_BCAH_pto_African American man with sign during protest for integration", "year": 1960, "repository": "Briscoe Center", "location": "UT Texas Student publications and photographs Collection ID e_uta_00398 Box 3Z145 Folder Integration Protest 3/11/60", "mediaType": "image", "description": "Taken on March 11, 1960, this photograph depicts the pro-integration sentiments on the University of Texas campus. The man at the center of the photo holds a poster that reads \"Integration Progress Chart\". On the graph, it depicts how the university had failed to increase Black student admission after the first Black undergraduate class was admitted in 1956. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy" ], "hires": [ "1960_BCAH_pto_African American man with sign during protest for integration.jpg" ] }, "1": { "id": 1, "title": "1968_BCAH_ads_Black Student Attacked SDS Flyer", "year": 1968, "repository": "Briscoe Center", "location": "Dolph Briscoe Center, Burt Gerding Papers, Box 4ZF351, Afro-Americans for Black Liberation 1968-1970 undated", "mediaType": "image", "description": "The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) created this document in 1968 after Don Weldon's racist attack of a Black UT student named Leo Northington. SDS organizers passed out this leaflet to students to encourage their participation in a boycott of Weldon's gas station. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1968_BCAH_ads_Black Student Attacked SDS Flye.jpg" ] }, "2": { "id": 2, "title": "1969_BCAH_cpd_AABL List of Demands to UT President", "year": 1969, "repository": "Briscoe Center", "location": "Dolph Briscoe Center, Burt Gerding Papers, Box 4ZF351, Afro-Americans for Black Liberation 1968-1970 undated", "mediaType": "pdf", "description": "On February 27, 1969, the Afro-Americans for Black Liberation (AABL) presented a list of 11 demands to then university President Norman Hackerman. These demands outline issues important to the organization, such as housing, increasing the Black faculty and student population, and the removal of racist administrators. Ultimately, many of the demands were left unmet. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1969_BCAH_cpd_AABL List of Demands to UT President_A.jpg", "1969_BCAH_cpd_AABL List of Demands to UT President_B.jpg", "1969_BCAH_cpd_AABL List of Demands to UT President_C.jpg" ] }, "3": { "id": 3, "title": "1969_BCAH_pto_student protest against the War", "year": 1969, "repository": "Briscoe Center", "location": "UT Texas Student publications and photographs Collection, ID e_uttsp_00054 Box 3Z163 Folder Moratorium", "mediaType": "image", "description": "In October of 1969, students gathered on campus and then marched to the state capitol building in Austin. This protest was a part of a nationwide walkout to protest U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy" ], "hires": [ "1969_BCAH_pto_student protest against the War.jpg" ] }, "4": { "id": 4, "title": "1970_BCAH_rts_October 24-25 Report on SMC", "year": 1970, "repository": "Briscoe Center", "location": "Dolph Briscoe Center, Burt Gerding Papers, Box 4ZF350, Pat [reports on community united front] 1970", "mediaType": "pdf", "description": "This document is an example of the state surviellence that the Student Mobilization Committe (SMC), a national anti-war collegiate organization, was under. Written in late October 1970, this report describes the SMC at UT's connections with planning an anti-war protest lead by high school students. The writer describes the planned routes of the march along with the names of students that attended the meeting. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1970_BCAH_rts_October 24-25 Report on SMC_A.jpg", "1970_BCAH_rts_October 24-25 Report on SMC_B.jpg", "1970_BCAH_rts_October 24-25 Report on SMC_C.jpg" ] }, "5": { "id": 5, "title": "1970_BCAH_rts_A View of CUF Report", "year": 1970, "repository": "Briscoe Center", "location": "Dolph Briscoe Center, Burt Gerding Papers, Box 4ZF350, Pat [reports on community united front] 1970", "mediaType": "pdf", "description": "This November 1970 document is an example of how the Austin Police Department surveilled the Community United Front (CUF). The writer describes what they learned about CUF by highlighting the organization's leaders, community programs, and political education goals for the city of Austin. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1970_BCAH_rts_A View of CUF Report_A.jpg", "1970_BCAH_rts_A View of CUF Report_B.jpg", "1970_BCAH_rts_A View of CUF Report_C.jpg", "1970_BCAH_rts_A View of CUF Report_D.jpg", "1970_BCAH_rts_A View of CUF Report_E.jpg", "1970_BCAH_rts_A View of CUF Report_F.jpg", "1970_BCAH_rts_A View of CUF Report_G.jpg" ] }, "6": { "id": 6, "title": "1971_BCAH_ads_Community United Front October Issue", "year": 1971, "repository": "Briscoe Center", "location": "Dolph Briscoe Center, Burt Gerding Papers, Box 4ZF350, The Rag + Related Publications, 1971", "mediaType": "pdf", "description": "The Community United Front (CUF) prodcued weekly newspaper issues that addressed public welfare issues on a local, national, and international scale which offered a political education to its readers. This issue discusses topics such as CUF's daycare program, the Vietnam War, and activism happening in U.S. prison system. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1971_BCAH_ads_Community United Front October Issue_A.jpg", "1971_BCAH_ads_Community United Front October Issue_B.jpg", "1971_BCAH_ads_Community United Front October Issue_C.jpg", "1971_BCAH_ads_Community United Front October Issue_D.jpg", "1971_BCAH_ads_Community United Front October Issue_E.jpg", "1971_BCAH_ads_Community United Front October Issue_F.jpg", "1971_BCAH_ads_Community United Front October Issue_G.jpg", "1971_BCAH_ads_Community United Front October Issue_H.jpg", "1971_BCAH_ads_Community United Front October Issue_I.jpg" ] }, "7": { "id": 7, "title": "1971_BCAH_acl_Second Coming November Issue", "year": 1971, "repository": "Briscoe Center", "location": "Dolph Briscoe Center, Burt Gerding Papers, Box 4ZF350, The Rag + Related Publications, 1971", "mediaType": "image", "description": "Second Coming was an Austin women's liberation newspaper that published biweekly issues beginning in 1971. The paper was an extension of the EveryWoman's Center, which provided classes and weekly meetings concerning women's liberation. In this particular issue, the paper describes reproductive health, events, and how women's liberation could be achieved. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1971_BCAH_acl_Second Coming November Issue_A.jpg", "1971_BCAH_acl_Second Coming November Issue_B.jpg", "1971_BCAH_acl_Second Coming November Issue_C.jpg", "1971_BCAH_acl_Second Coming November Issue_D.jpg", "1971_BCAH_acl_Second Coming November Issue_E.jpg" ] }, "8": { "id": 8, "title": "1975_BCAH_doc_Statement students denouncing racism at UT", "year": 1975, "repository": "Briscoe Center", "location": "UT Chancellor's Office records ID e_uta_00045_a Box 34 Desegregation, 1954/56", "mediaType": "image", "description": "United Students Against Racism created this list of demands in 1975 as a response to the national Civil Rights Office's report that UT was in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. These demands were sent to Govenor of Texas, UT's president and Chancellor, and to the Texas public. The UT claimed that the issues of racial discrimination were beyond their control and failed to address the demands. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1975_BCAH_doc_Statement students denouncing racism at UT_A.jpg", "1975_BCAH_doc_Statement students denouncing racism at UT_B.jpg", "1975_BCAH_doc_Statement students denouncing racism at UT_C.jpg", "1975_BCAH_doc_Statement students denouncing racism at UT_D.jpg" ] }, "9": { "id": 9, "title": "1978_BCAH_doc_beggining of the Black Studies center", "year": 1978, "repository": "Briscoe Center", "location": "UT Center for African and African American Studies ID e_uta_00289_001 Box 2005-086/3", "mediaType": "image", "description": "In 1978, John L. Warfield wrote this letter to the Executive Committee of the African & Afro-American Studies and Research Center. Warfield attached this letter to a memo from Dr. Wanjohi Waciuma, who had written to Warfield weeks prior, about his suggestions for the creation of a Black Studies Program at UT. ", "tags": [ "Pedagogy & Training", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1978_BCAH_doc_beggining of the Black Studies center.jpg" ] }, "10": { "id": 10, "title": "1981_BCAH_pto_student protest anti-apharteid", "year": 1981, "repository": "Briscoe Center", "location": "UT Texas Student publications and photographs Collection", "mediaType": "image", "description": "This March 1981 photograph depicts an anti-apartheid protest in downtown Austin. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy" ], "hires": [ "1981_BCAH_pto_student protest anti-apharteid.jpg" ] }, "11": { "id": 11, "title": "1997_BCAH_alc_UT NEWS MLK sculpture process", "year": 1997, "repository": "Briscoe Center", "location": "UT Student Government records ID e_uta_00302 Box 2007-075/6 Folder MLK Statue", "mediaType": "image", "description": "In 1997, the University announced that the funds for a Martin Luther King Jr. statute had been raised and that an artist would be selected for the project soon. Efforts to erect the statue began a decade prior with student activists desiring to diversify the statues on campus. Thus the student-led Martin Luther King Jr. Sculpture Foundation was created. The University provided money for the pedestal that the sculpture would be mounted on, but the majority of the project's funding came from the student population. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1997_BCAH_alc_UT NEWS MLK sculpture process_A.jpg", "1997_BCAH_alc_UT NEWS MLK sculpture process_B.jpg" ] }, "12": { "id": 12, "title": "1950_AHC_ads_Sweatt Campaign Flyer", "year": 1950, "repository": "Austin History Center", "location": "Joseph Jay Jones Papers AR 1999. 016, Box 1 #002", "mediaType": "image", "description": "This flyer promotes a fundraising event for the Sweatt v. Painter court case. The case began in the late 1940s when Heman Marion Sweatt sued the University of Texas after being rejected from the university's law school due to his race. Ultimatley, Sweatt would win the case and gain admittance in the fall of 1950. The long legal battle placed a financial strain on Sweatt and his family, but fundrasing events like these supported Sweatt's cause. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy" ], "hires": [ "1950_AHC_ads_Sweatt Campaign Flyer.jpg" ] }, "13": { "id": 13, "title": "1960_AHC_ads_Join the NAACP Flyer", "year": 1960, "repository": "Austin History Center", "location": "Joseph Jay Jones Papers AR 1999. 016, Box: 1 #002", "mediaType": "image", "description": "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a national organization that founded a chapter at the University of Texas at Austin in 1947. On this 1950 recruitment flyer, the NAACP at UT listed the urgent issues that Black students faced at the time. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1960_AHC_ads_Join the NAACP Flyer.jpg" ] }, "14": { "id": 14, "title": "1961_AHC_pto_UT Stand In Flyer", "year": 1961, "repository": "Austin History Center", "location": "Austin-American Statesman Negative: AS-61-30610-20", "mediaType": "image", "description": "This image shows a poster promoting a nation-wide \"Stand-in\" to protest racial segregation. This action was held on February 12, 1961. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1961_AHC_pto_UT Stand In Flyer.jpg" ] }, "15": { "id": 15, "title": "1961_AHC_pto_Students Protest Theater Segregation-B", "year": 1963, "repository": "Austin History Center", "location": "Austin-American Statements Negative: AS-63-39672(4)B", "mediaType": "image", "description": "In 1961, University of Texas students protested movie theater segregation. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1961_AHC_pto_Students Protest Theater Segregation-B.jpg" ] }, "16": { "id": 16, "title": "1968_AHC_ads_MLK Protest Flyer", "year": 1968, "repository": "Austin History Center", "location": "Joseph Jay Jones Papers AR 1999. 016, Box: 1 #002", "mediaType": "image", "description": "After the 1968 assassination of Civil Rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., students at the University of Texas organized a march from the college to the state capitol in downtown Austin. On the flyer, students called for a \"recognition of Black America's Dignity\", and demonstrated how the assassination had strengthened their resolve for an end to anti-Black racism. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy" ], "hires": [ "1968_AHC_ads_MLK Protest Flyer.jpg" ] }, "17": { "id": 17, "title": "1975_AHC_ads_Austin Women Workers Flyer", "year": 1975, "repository": "Austin History Center", "location": "Terry Albright and Micheal Rush Papers AR 2016-063 qAR box 081/006", "mediaType": "image", "description": "This 1975 International Women's Day flyer was created by the Austin Woman Worker's (AWW) organization and features an image from the Black Panther Party. The AWW, along with other organizations, hosted International Women's Day events that provided political education on local, national, and international women's rights issues. As the quote on this flyer suggests, the AWW was concerned with transformative poltics. ", "tags": [ "Public Education" ], "hires": [ "1975_AHC_ads_Austin Women Workers Flyer.jpg" ] }, "18": { "id": 18, "title": "1975_AHC_pto_Students Speak to Regents at UT Tower", "year": 1975, "repository": "Austin History Center", "location": "Austin-American Statements Negative: AS-75-89691-49", "mediaType": "image", "description": "After the U.S. Civil Rights Office found the University of Texas had multiple Civil Rights Act and Title VI violations. To urge the university to respond, United Students Against Racism held a rally in the Main Mall to speak with the University Board of Regents about the offences. Eventually, only 10 out of the 75 members were able to attend the closed meeting.", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1975_AHC_pto_Students Speak to Regents at UT Tower.jpg" ] }, "19": { "id": 19, "title": "ND_AHC_ads_Rockefeller Protest Flyer", "year": "undated (1970s?)", "repository": "Austin History Center", "location": "Terry Albright and Micheal Rush Papers Ar 2016-063 qAR box 081/021", "mediaType": "image", "description": "On April 1-2, 1974, the University of Texas hosted a meeting for \"the National Comission for Critical Choices for Americans\". This meeting was lead by then New York Govenor, eventual Vice President of the United States, and descendant of the wealthy Rockefeller family, Nelson Rockefeller. Gathering politicians and business owners, Rockefeller intended to dicuss critical American issues and identify solutions for them. Students at the University criticized the comission as representing the interests of wealthy Americans and as industrialist Rockefeller hinting at a presidential bid. This flyer promotes a discussion on the topic that would result in a protest demonstration at the Peace Fountain on April 1. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "ND_AHC_ads_Rockefeller Protest Flyer.jpg" ] }, "20": { "id": 20, "title": "1990_AHC_ads_Mozambique Independence Flyer", "year": "undated (1990s?)", "repository": "Austin History Center", "location": "Terry Albright and Micheal Rush Papers Ar 2016-063 qAR box 081/014", "mediaType": "image", "description": "On November 7, 1990, the African and Afro-American Research Center, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Radical Student Union hosted an event for Mozambique Independence. The speaker, Sharfudine Khan, was a United Nations delegate from the Frelimo Party, a democratic socialist movement that had initiated Mozambican independence from Portugal in 1975. At the time of the event, Mozambique was in the midst of Civil War to determine the future of the country. ", "tags": [ "Public Education" ], "hires": [ "1990_AHC_ads_Mozambique Independence Flyer.jpg" ] }, "21": { "id": 21, "title": "1970_BDA_mtg_Student Ethnic Studies Program", "year": 1970, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Black Studies Archive: B1, F7 (NCN)", "mediaType": "image", "description": "The Student Ethnic Studies Committee met in Februrary 1970 to discuss the state of the Ethnic Studies program and goals of the organization. They expressed concerns about the program's lack of community engagement and sought solutions to improve the content of Ethnic Studies courses. ", "tags": [ "Public Education", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1970_BDA_mtg_Student Ethnic Studies Program.jpg" ] }, "22": { "id": 22, "title": "1972_BDA_rts_ \"A Formal Proposal for An Office of Ethnic Affairs at The University of Texas\"", "year": 1972, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "UT Black Studies Archive B03, F16 ", "mediaType": "pdf", "description": "In 1972, the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO), the Blacks, and other student groups submitted a formal request to the University of Texas for an Office of Ethnic Affairs. The document included issues students of color experienced along with the roles, structure, and staffing requirements of the office. Then vice-president of student affairs Dr. Ronald Brown responded positively to the proposal, but expressed some concerns about the cost of the office. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1972_BDA_rts_A Formal Proposal for An Office of Ethnic Affairs at The University of Texas_A.jpg", "1972_BDA_rts_A Formal Proposal for An Office of Ethnic Affairs at The University of Texas_B.jpg", "1972_BDA_rts_A Formal Proposal for An Office of Ethnic Affairs at The University of Texas_C.jpg", "1972_BDA_rts_A Formal Proposal for An Office of Ethnic Affairs at The University of Texas_D.jpg", "1972_BDA_rts_A Formal Proposal for An Office of Ethnic Affairs at The University of Texas_F.jpg", "1972_BDA_rts_A Formal Proposal for An Office of Ethnic Affairs at The University of Texas_G.jpg", "1972_BDA_rts_A Formal Proposal for An Office of Ethnic Affairs at The University of Texas_H.jpg" ] }, "23": { "id": 23, "title": "1986_BDA_acl_UT Austin student protest \"Blacks administer retention demands\" .heic", "year": 1986, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "JLWP: B 10, F 1/2-8", "mediaType": "pdf", "description": "The Black Student Alliance (BSA) met with then University of Texas President, William Cunningham in 1986. BSA began the demonstration to urge the university to provide more resources for retention and recruitment of students of color on the campus. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1986_BDA_acl_UT Austin student protest Blacks administer retention demands_A.jpg" ] }, "24": { "id": 24, "title": "1986_BDA_acl_UT Student suffers third racially motivated attack", "year": 1986, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "JLWP: B 10, F 1/2-6", "mediaType": "pdf", "description": "In Februrary of 1986, University of Texas Black student activist Randy Bowman suffered from a third racially motivated attack. During the third incident, Bowman's attackers attempted to murder him. Bowman survived and sustained some injuries. The University involved the FBI to address the repeated violence against Bowman. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1986_BDA_acl_UT Student suffers third racially motivated attack_A.jpg", "1986_BDA_acl_UT Student suffers third racially motivated attack_B.jpg" ] }, "25": { "id": 25, "title": "1990_BDA_acl-pto_Students march for diverse curriculum and retention", "year": 1990, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B03, F19 ", "mediaType": "image", "description": "After two fraternies had racist incidents, student protesters gathered on campus and marched to the Texas State Supreme Court building to speak out against the racist climate on the university grounds. The university president suspended both fraternities, but student protesters felt the university failed to make actionable change. The Black Student Alliance pushed for more curriculum changes with their project PRIDE (Proposed Reforms to Institute Diversity in Education) which urged for curiculum changes and retention for underrepresented faculty, students and staff. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1990_BDA_acl-pto_Students march for diverse curriculum and retention-A.jpeg.jpg" ] }, "26": { "id": 26, "title": "1990_BDA_acl_Journal article on Toni Luckett's presidential term", "year": 1990, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B03, F19 ", "mediaType": "pdf", "description": "Toni Luckett, the first Black president of the Student Association, became known for her confrontational leadership style of the student association at the University of Texas. Luckett frequently organized students to demand more of the university adminstration and student leaders. Through her protests she called for the university to support the interests of students of color financially and with action. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1990_BDA_acl_Journal article on Toni Luckett's presidential term-A.jpg", "1990_BDA_acl_Journal article on Toni Luckett's presidential term-B.jpg" ] }, "27": { "id": 27, "title": "1990_BDA_acl_\"Luckett scors sound victory\".jpeg", "year": 1990, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B03, F19 ", "mediaType": "image", "description": "In 1990, University of Texas students elected Toni Luckett as the first Black president of the Student Association. Luckett attributed her victory to \"the power of the people\" after she effectively organized around topics important to the student body. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "\"1990_BDA_acl_\"\"Luckett scors sound victory\"\".jpeg \".jpg" ] }, "28": { "id": 28, "title": "1990_BDA_acl_\"Tempest in UT-pot\" on Toni Luckett", "year": 1990, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B03, F19 ", "mediaType": "image", "description": "Elected in 1990 as the first Black president of the Student Association, Toni Luckett gained traction on campus for her confrontational leadership. Luckett advocated for Black, Latinx, disabled, queer, and international students which left some white students critical of her leadership. Despite this Luckett, brought unprecedented attention to the role of the Student Association. Luckett organized to push the university to divest from South African Apartheid and for more actionable plans to support students of color on campus. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "\"1990_BDA_acl_\"\"Tempest in UT-pot\"\" on Toni Luckett.jpeg \".jpg" ] }, "29": { "id": 29, "title": "1990_BDA_acl_Black student athletes advocating to be connected to the larger student body", "year": 1990, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B03, F19 ", "mediaType": "image", "description": "In 1990, student athletes had grown frustrated by the ways that the University treated them as props and separated them from the political actions of the rest of the student body. Together, across a variety of athletic programs, they formed the Student Athlete Coalition to form a collective political voice that worked with other student groups on campus, such as the Black Student Alliance. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1990_BDA_acl_Black student athletes advocating to be connected to the larger student body.jpeg.jpg" ] }, "30": { "id": 30, "title": "1990_BDA_acl_March on Capitol for muticultrual curriculum reform", "year": 1990, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B03, F19 ", "mediaType": "image", "description": "After racial incidents involving fraternities on cmapus, students marched to the capitol to demand for curriculum changes. These students felt that the education system continued to sustain racism, homophobia, and sexism on campus. They supported the Black Student Alliance's project PRIDE (Proposed Reforms to Institute Diversity in Education) to change the university's course material and support rention of students and faculty of color. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1990_BDA_acl_March on Capitol for multicultural curriculum reform.jpg" ] }, "31": { "id": 31, "title": "1990_BDA_acl_UT drops two fraternities.jpeg", "year": 1990, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B03, F19 ", "mediaType": "image", "description": "Delta Tau Delta and Phi Gamma Delta were suspended from the University of Texas and required to do community service and take multicultural training after two racist incidents. The suspensions were the result of prolonged portests led by Black students. Students continued to organized after the supension to push for the hiring of minority professors and mandatory cultural courses to better educate the student population. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1990_BDA_acl_UT drops two fraternities.jpeg.jpg" ] }, "32": { "id": 32, "title": "1990_BDA_cpd_letter template drafted by Toni Luckett asking for support of a multicultural teach in", "year": 1990, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B03, F19 ", "mediaType": "image", "description": "1990 Student Association president Toni Luckett created this support template for the Black Faculty Caucus multicultural teach-in. The teach-in focused on defining multiculturalism and how it related to the University of Texas. Luckett asked that recipients return the letter to share their support of the teach-in. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1990_BDA_cpd_letter template drafted by Toni Luckett asking for support of a multicultural teach in_A.jpg", "1990_BDA_cpd_letter template drafted by Toni Luckett asking for support of a multicultural teach in_B.jpg" ] }, "33": { "id": 33, "title": "1996_BDA_acl_Student Rally (1)", "year": 1996, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B04, F1", "mediaType": "image", "description": "After the United States 5th Court of Appeals ruled that the University of Texas could not use race as a determining factor in law school admissions. The university had to decided whether or not to pursue another appeal to reverse the court's conclusion. Students on both sides gathered on campus in hopes of influencing the university's response. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1996_BDA_acl_Student Rally 1.jpeg" ] }, "34": { "id": 34, "title": "1996_BDA_aclpto_Rally to back UT affirmative action policy", "year": 1996, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B04, F1", "mediaType": "pdf", "description": "In 1996, the Hopwood v. Texas case threatened to upend the University of Texas Law Schools' affirmative action policy. The Fifth Court Circuit of Appeals struck down the district court's ruling and found the University's affirmative action policy to be unconstitional. In response, students organized a rally to protest the court's decision. The impacts of this decision can still be felt today as future cases would continue to chip away at the legal arguments used to combat institutionalized racism in admissions. Today, students continue to carry the legacy of organizing seen in this artifact. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1996_BDA_aclpto_Rally to back UT affirmative action policy_A.jpg", "1996_BDA_aclpto_Rally to back UT affirmative action policy_B.jpg", "1996_BDA_aclpto_Rally to back UT affirmative action policy_C.jpg" ] }, "35": { "id": 35, "title": "1997_BDA_acl_Jackson urges UT to fight racism", "year": 1997, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B04, F1", "mediaType": "image", "description": "In response to the Hopwood v. Texas decision, UT law professor Lino Graglia made racist comments about Black and Latino students ability to perform on par with white students. Thousands of students gathered to protest the professor's insenstiive rhetoric, in an inspiring speech Jesse Jackson called for healing and urged students to protest the Hopwood decision and the professors actions through a boycott. Eventually, Lino Graglia amended his comments and shared he was against affirmative action not diversity. The mass moblization of students against a Professor's comments demonstrates the power of student voice and activism. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1997_BDA_acl_Jackson urges UT to fight racism.jpg" ] }, "36": { "id": 36, "title": "1997_BDA_acl_Jesse Jackson urges boycott", "year": 1997, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B04, F1", "mediaType": "image", "description": "In response to the Hopwood v. Texas decision, UT law professor Lino Graglia made racist comments about Black and Latino students ability to perform on par with white students. Thousands of students gathered to protest the professor's insenstiive rhetoric, in an inspiring speech Jesse Jackson called for healing and urged students to protest the Hopwood decision and the professors actions through a boycott. Eventually, Lino Graglia amended his comments and shared he was against affirmative action not diversity. The mass moblization of students against a Professor's comments demonstrates the power of student voice and activism. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1997_BDA_acl_Jesse Jackson urges boycott.jpg" ] }, "37": { "id": 37, "title": "1997_BDA_acl-pto_'it's healing time' with Jesse Jackson", "year": 1997, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B04, F1", "mediaType": "image", "description": "In response to the Hopwood v. Texas decision, UT law professor Lino Graglia made racist comments about Black and Latino students ability to perform on par with white students. Thousands of students gathered to protest the professor's insenstiive rhetoric, in an inspiring speech Jesse Jackson called for healing and urged students to protest the Hopwood decision and the professors actions through a boycott. Eventually, Lino Graglia amended his comments and shared he was against affirmative action not diversity. The mass moblization of students against a Professor's comments demonstrates the power of student voice and activism. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1997_BDA_acl-pto_'it's healing time' with Jesse Jackson.jpg" ] }, "38": { "id": 38, "title": "1997_BDA_acl_Reaction piece on Lebermann meeting", "year": 1997, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B04, F1", "mediaType": "image", "description": "As part of their organizing in response to the Hopwood v. Texas case and Lino Graglia's remarks, students met with UT Regent Lebermann to discuss their demands. Worth noting, like students before them, this group of students demanded the University recruit and retain students, faculty, and administrators that reflect the diverse demographics of the state. This demand, passed from generation to generation of students, is still not met, but, this action reminds the importance of sustained demands over time. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1997_BDA_acl_Reaction piece on Lebermann meeting.jpg" ] }, "39": { "id": 39, "title": "1997_BDA_pto_Sen Barrientos' speech on South Mall", "year": 1997, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B04, F1", "mediaType": "image", "description": "This photograph captures the massive crowd that gathered to protest the Hopwood decision and Professor Lino Graglia's insensitive remarks towards Black and Latino students. Senator Barrientos, a Mexican American civil rights leader and one of the first Mexican American representatives in Travis County addressed students and urged them to exercise their First Amendment Rights. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1997_BDA_pto_Sen Barrientos' speech on South Mall.jpg" ] }, "40": { "id": 40, "title": "1998_BDA_acl_Student protest at the Tower", "year": 1998, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B04, F1", "mediaType": "image", "description": "Documents a student protest at the tower. This article discusses students being arrested and the number of students who protested outside of the Tower.", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": ["1998_BDA_acl_Student protest at the Tower.jpeg"] }, "41": { "id": 41, "title": "1998_BDA_acl_Student protest at the Tower cont.", "year": 1998, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B04, F1", "mediaType": "image", "description": "A year after the Hopwood v. Texas decision and Lino Graglia's incendiary comments, students continued to demand the University take action to maintain affirmation action policies not covered in the Hopwood decision. After staging an overnight sit-in at the tower student demands were finally met when President Faulkner agreed to meet with six represantives from the student protests, hold an open forum, and publish a response in the Daily Texan. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1998_BDA_acl_Student protest at the Tower cont..jpeg" ] }, "42": { "id": 42, "title": "1998_BDA_acl_Student rally on affirmative action", "year": 1998, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B04, F1", "mediaType": "image", "description": "A year later, students continue to protest against the Hopwood decision.", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": ["1998_BDA_acl_Student rally on affirmative action.jpeg"] }, "43": { "id": 43, "title": "1998_BDA_acl_Students occupy Tower in protest", "year": 1998, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B04, F1", "mediaType": "pdf", "description": "Determined to support affirmative action, a group of students united to form the Anti-Racism Organizing Committee, within a few weeks they held their first demonstration. What began as a rally on the West Mall culminated in a march to the Tower and an overnight sit-in. They demanded President Faulkner reinstate affirmative action policies that were not prohibited by the Hopwood decision. Today, the Tower continues to be a site of student sit-ins and a reminder of the power of student organizing. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1998_BDA_acl_Students occupy Tower in protest_A.png", "1998_BDA_acl_Students occupy Tower in protest_B.png", "1998_BDA_acl_Students occupy Tower in protest_C.png" ] }, "44": { "id": 44, "title": "2004_BDA_ads_MLK March Flyer", "year": 2004, "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "UT Black Studies Archive B37, F1 ", "mediaType": "image", "description": "After the Martin Luther King Jr. statue was vandalized twice with little response from the administration, Black Student Alliance member Courtney Morris and adviser Kyle Clark organized a vigil in front of the statue to protest the racist acts. The vigil opened up with an open-mic where students had space to share their experiences with racial tensions on campus. Unifying in the face of racism, Black Student Alliance members cited the need for a shift in culture and climate to combat racism. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "2004_BDA_ads_MLK March Flyer.jpg" ] }, "45": { "id": 45, "title": "ND_BDA_acl_Protesting UT investments in South Africa", "year": "nd", "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "JLWP B 12, F7-1", "mediaType": "image", "description": "The Southern African Liberation Action Committee was an anti-apartheid organization founded by University of Texas at Austin students. At the time the University of Texas had approximately 300 million invested in companies who had business relations in South Africa. Their organizing led the Student Association to pass a resolution to divest from companies that did business in South Africa. While they were unable to persuade the Board of Regents to support the resolution, this era of protests led many companies to eventually divest in South Africa. A reminder that what starts \"here\" indeed changes the world. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "ND_BDA_acl_Protesting UT investments in South Africa.jpg" ] }, "46": { "id": 46, "title": "ND_BDA_acl_\"Apartheid foes at UT stand firm\"", "year": "nd", "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "JLWP: B 10, f 1/2-9", "mediaType": "pdf", "description": "The Southern African Liberation Action Committee was an anti-apartheid organization founded by University of Texas at Austin students. At the time the University of Texas had approximately 300 million invested in companies who had business relations in South Africa. Their organizing led the Student Association to pass a resolution to divest from companies that did business in South Africa. While they were unable to persuade the Board of Regents to support the resolution, this era of protests led many companies to eventually divest in South Africa. A reminder that what starts \"here\" indeed changes the world. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "ND_BDA_acl_\"Apartheid foes at UT stand firm\"_A.jpg", "ND_BDA_acl_\"Apartheid foes at UT stand firm\"_B.jpg" ] }, "47": { "id": 47, "title": "ND_BDA_acl_\"Frat at UT on past probation for using 'Sambo'\"", "year": "nd", "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B03, F19 ", "mediaType": "image", "description": "Round-up week, a homecoming event that began in the 1930s had a history of racism. Each year fraternities gathered and publicly celebrated racism. In 1990, Delta Tau Delta painted anti-black slurs on their parade car and Phi Gamma Delta, already on probation distributed t-shirts displaying the Fiji man, an offensive caricature long banned by the fraternity. In response, the Black Student Alliance organized a list of demands to shift climate and culture at the University through institutional change. As a result of their organizing, President William Cunningham significantly cut funding for Roundup Week and today it is not a university sponsored event. ", "tags": [ "Public Education", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "ND_BDA_acl_\"Frat at UT on past probation for using 'Sambo'\".jpg" ] }, "48": { "id": 48, "title": "ND_BDA_acl_Assaults and threats against BSA president Randy Bowman", "year": "nd", "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B03, F19 ", "mediaType": "image", "description": "In the 1980s, former Black Student Alliance President Randy Bowman faced multiple death threats and two physical attacks for his organizing. Despite the seriousness of the threats and the attack, the incident received little attention from administration until Black students protested. Even then, an FBI investigation was opened and quickly closed for lack of evidence. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "ND_BDA_acl_Assaults and threats against BSA president Randy Bowman_A.jpg" ] }, "49": { "id": 49, "title": "ND_BDA_acl_Protesters march against racism at UT", "year": "nd", "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B03, F19 ", "mediaType": "image", "description": "During Round-up week in Spring 1990, two separate fraternities committed racist acts. In response, more than 1,000 students and Austin residents marched on the state Supreme Court building and the fraternity house to protest the fraternities actions and demand ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "ND_BDA_acl_Protesters march against racism at UT.png" ] }, "50": { "id": 50, "title": "ND_BDA_acl_UT Black student enrollment in 1996-97", "year": "nd", "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "Brenda Burt Archive B04, F1", "mediaType": "image", "description": "In response to the Hopwood v. Texas decision, UT law professor Lino Graglia made racist comments about Black and Latino students ability to perform on par with white students. This photograph depicts just one of the many demonstrations students organized in response to the threats to affirmative action and the racially insensitive comments made by Professor Graglia. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "ND_BDA_acl_UT Black student enrollment in 1996-97.jpg" ] }, "51": { "id": 51, "title": "ND_BDA_cpd_\"T.I.M.E. The Improvement of Minority Education\" letter", "year": "nd", "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "UT Black Studies Archive B03, F16 ", "mediaType": "image", "description": "In 1972, the Blacks, Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO), and white student groups united to address the needs of minorities on campus. Similar to demands made before the 1970s and future demands, Black and chicano students advocated for an increase in minority recruitment so that the demographics mirrored the population of the state. These students also advocated for Black and Chicano studies departments to be separate entities not under the umbrella of Ethnic Studies. Today, University of Texas has a Mexican American Latinx Studies Department and the largest African American Diaspora Studies Department in the country. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "ND_BDA_cpd_\"T.I.M.E. The Improvement of Minority Education\" letter.jpg" ] }, "52": { "id": 52, "title": "ND_BDA_cpd_Names of Black Studies Action Group members", "year": "nd", "repository": "Black Diaspora Archive", "location": "UT Black Studies Archive B03, F15 ", "mediaType": "image", "description": "Although there is limited information on this artifact, this document was likely created in 1968 by Black student organizers during the larger student movement of the 1960s. In 1969 the Afro-American Studies and Research Center was established and Henry Bullock was the founding director. ", "tags": [ "Pedagogy & Training", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "ND_BDA_cpd_Names of Black Studies Action Group members.jpg" ] }, "53": { "id": 53, "title": "1990_AAS_acl_Students Protest President Speech", "year": 1990, "repository": "Austin American Statesmen", "location": null, "mediaType": "image", "description": "During round-up week in Spring 1990, Delta Tau Delta and Phi Gamma Delta committed separate acts of racism that led to student protests. In response, President William Cunningham addressed students through a last-minute announced speech. Unmoved by the President's delayed reaction, students raised their voices in protest and the President was unable to finish his speech. This article highlights both the student response and Black Student Alliance's demands. ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1990_AAS_acl_Students Protest President Speech-1.jpg", "1990_AAS_acl_Students Protest President Speech-2.jpg", "1990_AAS_acl_Students Protest President Speech-3.jpg" ] }, "54": { "id": 54, "title": "1990_AAS_acl_Black Student Alliance Meets With UT President", "year": 1990, "repository": "Austin American Statesmen", "location": null, "mediaType": "image", "description": "During round-up week in Spring 1990, Delta Tau Delta and Phi Gamma Delta committed separate acts of racism that led to student protests. This article captures the Black Student Alliance's response as well as other student sentiments during this contentious time. President William Cunningham failed to respond with tangible instituional changes and students felt he did support the Black Student Alliance's Project PRIDE (Proposed Reforms to Institute Diversity in Education). ", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1990_AAS_acl_Black Student Alliance Meets With UT President-1.jpg", "1990_AAS_acl_Black Student Alliance Meets With UT President-2.jpg", "1990_AAS_acl_Black Student Alliance Meets With UT President-3.jpg" ] }, "56": { "id": 56, "title": "1990_QTBIPOC_acl_Toni Luckett", "year": 1990, "repository": "QTBIPOC", "location": null, "mediaType": "image", "description": "Discusses election of Toni Luckett first Black, lesbian student body president, this event was a piece of the student movement", "tags": [ "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1990_QTBIPOC_acl_Toni Luckett-1.jpg" ] }, "57": { "id": 57, "title": "1992_QTBIPOC_acl_Views From The Student Movement Polemicist", "year": 1992, "repository": "QTBIPOC", "location": null, "mediaType": "image", "description": "documents student responses/analysis of student movement from Toni Luckett to student protests", "tags": [ "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1992_QTBIPOC_acl_Views From The Student Movement Polemicist-1.jpg", "1992_QTBIPOC_acl_Views From The Student Movement Polemicist-2.jpg", "1992_QTBIPOC_acl_Views From The Student Movement Polemicist-3.jpg" ] }, "58": { "id": 58, "title": "1988_SCC_acl_Local News Articles", "year": 1988, "repository": "Senate and Student Government", "location": null, "mediaType": "image", "description": "Racial forum on institutional racism, point of activiation that led to 1990 student protests pg. 74 and 75", "tags": [ "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "1988_SCC_acl_Local News Articles-001.jpg", "1988_SCC_acl_Local News Articles-074.jpg", "1988_SCC_acl_Local News Articles-075.jpg" ] }, "59": { "id": 59, "title": "1992_QTBIPOC_acl_Gays Protest Military Policy", "year": 1992, "repository": "QTBIPOC", "location": null, "mediaType": "image", "description": "documents student groups writing letter to Ann Richards to address discrimination", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy" ], "hires": [ "1992_QTBIPOC_acl_Gays Protest Military Policy-1.jpg" ] }, "60": { "id": 60, "title": "nd_QTBIPOC_acl_GLSA Support BSA Plan", "year": "nd", "repository": "QTBIPOC", "location": null, "mediaType": "image", "description": "documents student advocacy through student organizations", "tags": [ "Direct Activism & Advocacy", "University-Based Politics" ], "hires": [ "nd_QTBIPOC_acl_GLSA Support BSA Plan-1.jpg" ] } }