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TAEX Basics: Questions Raised Early and Often about Civil Rights at the Texas (AgriLife) Agricultural Extension Services

By Greg Moses

One powerful component of the Texas higher education system has proved itself stubbornly impervious to the challenge of civil rights. Throughout the 20th century, the Texas Agricultural Extension Service (TAEX: now known as Texas AgriLife) has served as a textbook model of institutional segregation. And that tradition is in evidence today.

With its traditional headquarters at the College Station campus of Texas A&M University, TAEX reaches into virtually every county in the state, deploying an influential network of county agents whose work is supposed to bring cutting-edge science to the service of average citizens.

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Top Story of Fall 2001:

Fourth Federally-Mandated Desegregation Plan Approved and Posted At Official Website

By Greg Moses

As it attempts to reverse a slump in higher education, the state of Texas has promised to send new money to two old schools that have the best record of educating the state’s nonwhite students.

The Fourth Texas Plan for Desegregation of Higher Education, requested and approved by the Office of Civil Rights at the US Department of Education, promises to bring some parity to the state’s support of Prairie View University and Texas Southern University.

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The Cooperative Extension Services were created by Congress in 1914. This is a page for thinking out loud about the upcoming centennial.

Civil Rights at Land Grant Colleges

Wallenstein, Peter. “Civil Rights and the Courts: A Band of Brothers and the Siege Against Segregation in Virginia,” Virginia Social Science Journal, (1997)V.32:99 – 112.

Focus on civil-rights litigation of the 1940s.

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Note: the following information was posted as “Site Info” at the html version of the Texas Civil Rights Review.

Site Notes

Therefore if, within the confines of its present culture, the nation ever seeks to purge itself of its color hate, it will find itself at war with itself, convulsed by a spasm of emotional and moral confusion. If the nation ever finds itself examining its real relation to the Negro, it will find itself doing infinitely more than that, for the anti-Negro attitude of whites represents but a tiny part-though a symbolically significant one-of the moral attitude of the nation.

–Richard Wright

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