"Save Our School" rally at ASC

Creator

Preview

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