Texas Southern University history

The school's name was later changed to Houston College for Negroes in 1934.

In 1936, sixty-three individuals became members of the first graduating class.

The college operated this way until the summer of 1943, when it formally added a graduate program.

In the spring of 1945, the Houston Independent School District severed its relationship with Houston College for Negroes, and thereafter all management of the college was vested in a Separate Board of Regents.

In February 1946, Heman Marion Sweatt, an African American man, applied to the University of Texas School of Law.

Harvey Johnson came to Houston from Port Arthur to study art at Texas Southern University under world-renowned artist, sculptor, and teacher, John Biggers, who founded the school’s art program in 1949.

Painter (1950) allowed Sweatt to attend the University of Texas Law School.

On June 1, 1951, the name of this new university for Negroes was changed from Texas State University for Negroes to Texas Southern University after students petitioned the state legislature to remove the phrase "for Negroes."

The Jesse H. Jones School of Business (JHJ) at Texas Southern University was founded in 1955 to service an increasing student interest in business in the City of Houston.

What became TSU only admitted black applicants until 1956, and UH only admitted […]

In March 1960, Texas Southern University students organized Houston's first sit-in at the Weingarten's lunch counter located at 4110 Almeda.

On May 17, 1967, it was reported that students at TSU rioted on campus.

By Grace Conroy, Caitlyn Jones, and Debbie Z. Harwell The local Sembradores de Amistad chapter held a fundraiser in 1970 to provide glasses for San José Clinic patients.

In 2001 Tropical Storm Allison killed 22 people in the area, damaged office buildings and thousands of homes, and caused widespread flooding in the city.

Hurricane Ike, though responsible for far fewer deaths, caused similar damage to Houston shortly after making landfall in nearby Galveston in September 2008.

TSU journalism professor Serbino Sandifer-Walker worked for nearly two years with the Texas Historical Commission, the original students who led the march, and many other stakeholders, to have the historic marker designated on March 4, 2010, the fiftieth anniversary of that sit-in.