Allen, Ruth Alice, papers, 1943-1973.

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Allen, Ruth Alice, papers, 1943-1973.

Some materials relate to the 1944 firing of University of Texas president Homer P. Rainey by the board of regents, the ensuing actions of the faculty, and the issue of academic freedom.

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University of Texas.

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These slides were transferred to the Briscoe Center from the Harry Ransom Center in 2008. From the guide to the UT Color Slides Collection 2008-079., 1938-1965, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin) These images were used for UT’s 75th Anniversary presentations in 1958. Many are copies of photographs in the Briscoe Center’s collections and are dated much earlier than the reproductions in this collection. From the guide to ...

Hickey, Thomas A., 1869-1925

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Machinist, journalist, socialist party organizer. Born January 14, 1869 in Dublin, Ireland. Emigrated to New York City at the age of twenty-three and after holding jobs in New Jersey and Montana, came to Texas in 1904 where he assumed duties as organizer of the Socialist party in Texas. In 1911 he became editor of "The Rebel," a weekly newspaper published in Hallettsville, Texas. In 1917 publication of "The Rebel" was suppressed under the Espionage Bill of that year. Hickey subsequently became a...

University of Texas. Faculty.

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University of Texas. Faculty Committee of Eleven.

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Allen, Ruth Alice, 1889-1979

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Allen was professor of economics at The University of Texas, Bureau of Research in the Social Sciences, in Austin. From the description of Papers, 1923-1963, bulk 1936-1963. (University of Texas at Arlington). WorldCat record id: 19257430 Ruth Alice Allen, University of Texas professor of economics, 1923-1959, who authored several books on the history of labor, particularly in Texas, died in 1979. From the guide to the Ruth Alice Allen Papers, 1943-1946, 1971, 19...

Clark, Edward A., 1906-

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Rainey, Homer P. (Homer Price), 1896-

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Homer Price Rainey (1896-1985) was born in Clarksville, Texas, where he grew up in a poor farming family. He was valedictorian of his class at Lovelady High School in 1913. At the age of 19, he became a Baptist minister, and he served in the United States army during World War I. In 1919, Rainey earned his B.A. degree from Austin College and taught education there for three years before attending the University of Chicago, where he earned a master’s degree in 1923 and a doctorate in...