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...WHEN Barbara Louise Smith, 19, a music major at the University of Texas, was asked to quit the leading role in the school opera because she is a Negro, she made headlines across the land. But the reaction of her fellow Texans proved that integration has made bigger strides than Barbara-or anyone else-realized. See EDUCATION, The Eyes of Texas...
...Since Barbara Louise Smith, 19, has the best soprano voice of anyone in her class at the University of Texas' College of Fine Arts, it was only natural that she should win the starring role in the college's annual full-dress opera. Last October she was cast as Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, rehearsed conscientiously. Then, only a few days before last week's performance, she was summoned to the office of the dean and told that she must get out of the cast. Dean E. W. Doty was very sorry, but certain...
Over the months Barbara had already received as many as three threatening, anonymous phone calls a week. But it was not until last month that a segregationist legislator named Jerry Sadler blasted the "octopus on the hill" (i.e., the university) for mixing "whites and blacks in an opera." Later another segregationist. Representative Joe Chapman, phoned the university's President Logan Wilson to discuss the matter. Though he denies threatening Wilson, the fact remained that the university's appropriations were about to come up before the legislature. Result: President Wilson suddenly decided that Dido must be white...
Apologies & Effigies. Hurt and shaken, Barbara Smith managed to swallow her pride. "The ultimate success of integration at the university," she said, "is much more important than my appearance in the opera." With that Barbara kept mum -and university officials were ordered to do the same. But last week a series of events proved that integration had achieved a far greater measure of success than Barbara-or anyone else-had realized. Seldom had the university been the center of such a storm of indignation...
...Barbara Smith, a freshman at UT, was cast six months ago as Dido, but one week before opening she was told by the administration that she would not appear in the opera. The reasons given were: "to insure Miss Smith's well-being and to quelch any possibility that her appearance would precipitate a cut in the University's appropriations in the state legislature...