Austin Theater Stand-in Reunion Records 1960-2010

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Austin Theater Stand-in Reunion Records 1960-2010

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F. Chandler Davidson served as the president for Students for Direct Action (SDA); a group formed in the 1960s to desegregate the University of Texas theaters. In 2010, the SDA held a theater stand-in reunion for participants and supporters of the organization. This collection contains reunion logistics, reunion correspondence, printed material and biographical information relating to SDA participants and their efforts to desegregate UT theaters.

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Austin History Center , Austin Public Library, 810 Guadalupe Street, Austin, Texas, 78701.

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Davidson, F. Chandler

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Chandler Davidson was born in 1936 in the Davis Mountains, Fort Davis, Texas. In 1954, he enrolled at the University of Texas Austin but dropped out in 1955 to join the Navy. In 1959, he re-enrolled at UT and became a columnist for the Daily Texan. His column, "Beware the of Jabberwock," was a combination of social commentary and satire. He wrote several columns attacking segregation and the mistreatment of blacks at UT. In the fall of 1960 he was approached by the late ...

Davidson, F. Chandler, 1954-

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Goldstein, Ernest E.

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Students for Direct Action.

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