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Identifier
10013176
Description
Arlington State College during A&M controversy; student crowd protests with signs: "If we wanted to be Aggies we'd have gone to A&M." A crowd of an estimated 2,500 Arlington State College (now The University of Texas at Arlington/UTA) students gathered at the "Save Our School" rally to protest a proposed name change at the school. The proposed name change was made by four members of the A&M board of directors in December 1964, and the group proposed to name the school "Texas A&M University at Arlington." During the rally, Johnson said a petition that will be sent to the Legislature, which asks for complete independence from the A&M system, had been signed by more than 1,500 students.
Archival Date
1965-01-06
Collection Name
University of Texas at Arlington News Service Photograph Collection
Collection Number
AR387-4-9
Original Format
Prints, Black & White
File Format
JPG
Rights
Rights held by The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections. For more information or for reproduction requests, please contact UTA Special Collections by emailing spcoref@uta.edu.
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Subjects
Universities & colleges; Protests movements
Names
Arlington State College (Arlington, Tex.)
Subjects
Universities & colleges; Protests movements