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@TexasObserver@texasobserver.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Learning from #history: In 1944 when Homer Rainey was fired, students went on strike and 8,000 of them marched in a mock funeral procession carrying a coffin with a banner that read “academic freedom” from campus to the Capitol and the governor’s mansion. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-faculty-firings-tom-alter/

#FreeSpeech #education #politics #USpol #news #Texas

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Texas History Offers Warnings amid Rash of Faculty Firings

Lessons to learn from the politically motivated firing of a UT president in the 1940s
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