African-American college students protest segregation at the University of Texas, Austin, April 27, 1949. UT Texas Student Publications, Inc., Photographs, The Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin; CN 02653.

Heman Sweatt, civil-rights plaintiff, registering for courses at the University of Texas law school, Austin, 1950. Prints and Photographs Collection, Heman Sweatt file, The Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin; CN 00323B. Sweatt won admission to the University of Texas law school as a result of Sweatt v. Painter, which went to the United States Supreme Court.

State and national leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (top row, left to right: John J. Jones, M. T. Blanton, Thurgood Marshall, ; bottom row, left to right: unidentified, Juanita Craft, Walter White, Peyton Medlock), Dallas, 1948. Juanita Jewel Shanks Craft Collection, The Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin; CN 00674. Juanita Craft, a field worker with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, helped organize 182 branches in Texas.