OH 0519 | Oral History

OH 0519

College professor, former director of the North Texas State University News Service, former university administrator. His recollections concerning the desegregation of North Texas State College, 1954-56. Admission of A. Tennyson Miller, 1954; Adkins case, 1955-56; admission of Mrs. Irma E. L. Sephas, 1956; role of President J. C. Matthews in the desegregation of NTSC; press and television coverage; community attitudes and response; student and faculty reactions; Abner Haynes as the first African-American athlete at NTSC, 1956.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 45 pp.
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Moray Comrie
Date of Interview October 23, 1980

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