administrative records

Abstract

Edmund T. Gordon is an activist, anthropologist, professor, administrator, and founding chair of the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.

Abstract The Texas Architecture Survey (TAS) was commissioned by the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art (Fort Worth, Texas) and the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. Conducted from 1963-1966, the survey produced a partial visual inventory of Texas homes and public buildings built in the nineteenth century. The survey resulted in two books published by the Amon Carter Museum and University of Texas Press, "Texas Homes of the Nineteenth Century" (1966) by Blake Alexander and "Texas...

Abstract

The UT Black Studies Archive documents the history, administration and activities of the Black Studies department at The University of Texas at Austin. The majority of materials in the collection represent the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies. Established in 1969, the Warfield Center emerged from the university’s Ethnic Studies program and is the founding unit of the department.