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.

African Americans in the "Colored Waiting Room" at a bus station. Photograph by R. C. Hickman. Dallas, ca. 1950s. R. C. Hickman Photograph Collection, The Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin; CN 08024. Integration of blacks became an important political topic after Heman Sweatt was admitted to the law school at the University of Texas in 1950. The last bills supporting segregation passed the Texas legislature in 1957.