Emily H. Schwartz Cactus Cafe ControversyCollection 2009-2010

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Emily H. Schwartz Cactus Cafe ControversyCollection 2009-2010

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The Emily H. Schwartz Cactus CaféControversy Collection, 2009-2010, comprises correspondence, flyers, meeting notes,speeches and newspaper articles documenting the public cry over the proposed closingof the Cactus Café.

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Schwartz, Emily H.

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Emily H. Schwartz was a leading activist in the successful movement to save the Cactus Café, a live music venue and bar at the University of Texas at Austin, which UT administrators had announced would close in the spring of 2010. From the guide to the Emily H. Schwartz Cactus Cafe Controversy Collection 2010-238, 2011-162., 2009-2010, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin) ...

University of Texas at Austin.

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The University of Texas at Austin (UT) opened in 1883 with eight professors, four assistants, a proctor, and 221 male and female students. The first set of graduates, consisting of thirteen law students, attended UT commencement on June 14, 1884. By World War I, enrollment rose to 2,254 and by World War II to over 11,000. African Americans were admitted in 1950, and by 1966, there were 27,345 students. Over the next 40 years, the university continued to expand. In 2009 e...