As Texas Commissioner of Education, Dr. J. W. Edgar headed the Texas Education Agency (TEA) at the time of United States v. Texas. After the Brown decision, the TEA never saw itself as an agent of integration enforcement, preferring to leave the matter to local officials. Justice’s order flipped this notion on its head by making the TEA responsible for fully desegregating Texas public schools. | Source: Douglass, Neal. “J.W. Edgar reading the Austin Statesman newspaper.” Digital image. University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth18999/m1/1/Download Original File
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Douglass, Neal. “J.W. Edgar reading the Austin Statesman newspaper.” Digital image. University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth18999/m1/1/
