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Commemorating Black Agency at UT
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Commemorating Black Agency at UT

Friday, September 15 from 2:30 to 4pm is a gathering event at the Gearing Hall Patio to celebrate the "Breaking Barriers: Black Agency at UT Austin" site activation for the Sweatt v. Painter Commemorative Project. The site activation is a temporary art installation that will take place on the north lawns of T.S. Painter Hall along 24...
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Exalton Delco: UT's First African American Ph.D. in Zoology
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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 ...
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