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Exalton Delco: UT's First African American Ph.D. in Zoology

Exalton Delco: UT's First African American Ph.D. in Zoology

This article first appeared February 2, 2017 in the Integrative Biology History Project. This is a reposting.  Photo: Delco at home during an interview with the author Exalton Alfonso Delco Jr. began his Ph.D. work in the Department of Zoology at UT in 1957. Although UT was deemed “desegregated,” the campus and surrounding businesses ...