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Born to Serve - A History of Texas Southern University (Paperback)
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Born to Serve - A History of Texas Southern University (Paperback)
Series: Race and Culture in the American West Series
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List price R520
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Discovery Miles 4 890
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Texas Southern University is often said to have been "conceived in
sin." Located in Houston, the school was established in 1947 as an
"emergency" state-supported university for African Americans, to
prevent the integration of the University of Texas. Born to Serve
is the first book to tell the full history of TSU, from its
founding, through the many varied and defining challenges it faced,
to its emergence as a first-rate university that counts Barbara
Jordon, Mickey Leland, and Michael Strahan among its graduates.
Merline Pitre frames TSU's history within that of higher education
for African Americans in Texas, from Reconstruction to the lawsuit
that gave the school its start. The case, Sweatt v. Painter,
involved student Heman Marion Sweatt, who was denied entry to the
University of Texas Law School because he was black. Pitre traces
the tortuous measures by which Texas legislators tried to meet a
provision of the state's constitution that called for the
establishment and maintenance of a "branch university for the
instruction of colored youths of the State." When the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled in 1950 that the UT Law School's efforts to remain
segregated violated the U.S. Constitution, the future of the
institution that would become Texas Southern University in 1951
looked doubtful. In its early years the university persevered in
the face of state neglect and underfunding and the threat of
merger. Born to Serve describes the efforts, both humble and
heroic, that faculty and staff undertook to educate students and
turn TSU into the thriving institution it is today: a major
metropolitan university serving students of all races and
ethnicities from across the country and throughout the world.
Launched during the early civil rights movement, TSU has a history
unique among historically black colleges and universities, most of
which were established immediately after the Civil War. Born to
Serve adds a critical chapter to the history of education and
integration in the United States.
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