Read the newspaper clipping, “Founding of Texas Southern University Affirms “Separate But Equal” Education, 1947,” and answer the Questionnaire. Primary
sources like this demonstrate the type of discrimination African Americans endured in schools across Texas. Make sure your responses are detailed and
have complete thoughts and sentences – not short phrases or comments.
Closely observe each question and address each one.
1. Who created this primary source?
2. When was it created? What was the historical context?
3. What do you read that you did not expect?
4. What powerful words and ideas are expressed?
Think about your response to the source.
1. What feelings and thoughts do the primary source trigger in you?
2. What questions does it raise?
3. What was happening during this period?
4. What was the creator’s purpose in making this primary source?
5. What does the creator do to get their point across? What is their argument?
6. What was this primary source’s audience?
