TIMELINE

1927

Houston school board creates two junior colleges, one for white students and one for black students.

1934

The junior colleges are turned into two private, four-year universities: the University of Houston and Houston College for Negroes.

1946

Heman Sweatt is denied admission to University of Texas at Austin law school because he is black. His case later reaches the Supreme Court.

1947

Texas buys the Houston College for Negroes for $2 million. It eventually becomes Texas Southern University, the first public university in the city.

1962

The University of Houston admits its first black student.

1999

The federal government finds Texas is underfunding TSU and Prairie View A&M. Texas agrees to give the schools extra funding.