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In 2016, the University of Texas at Austin celebrated two necessary milestones: the thirtieth anniversary of the Heman Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights and the sixtieth anniversary of the primary black undergraduate students to go into the university. These historic moments don’t seem to be just special; they’re relevant to current conversations and experiences on school campuses around the country. The tale of integration at UT against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South is complex and momentous—a story that necessitates figuring out and sharing. Likewise, this narrative is inextricably linked to current conversations about students’ negotiations of identity and place in upper education.