Civil rights
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Part of TARO subject browse terms
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Rice Institute/Rice University Charter Trial records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0275
Overview
These records reflect the court proceedings of and alumni and public response to Rice Institute's Charter trial of 1964 and later appeals and judgments. The lawsuit was brought by the Rice Institute Trustees seeking to alter the Institute's original charter to allow admission of students of color and to enable the school to charge tuition. Additional changes to the charter in 1982 and 1998 relating to structure of the board of trustees and the university's legal ability to borrow money are also...
Dates:
1963 - 1998
Rice University Thresher student newspaper editor (Brady Tyson) papers
Collection
Identifier: UA 0030
Abstract
The collection consists of 1948 and 1949 correspondence with Brady Tyson, editor of the Rice Thresher; his editorials favoring admission of qualified African Americans to Rice Institute; and newspaper reports on the Tyson material and public response to it. The content ends with President Huston’s letter to the editor of the Thresher, pointing out that Rice was chartered for white students only.
Dates:
1948 - 1949