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Barbara Smith Conrad's Voice Would Not Be Silenced
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Diverse issues in higher education, 2017-06, Vol.34 (11), p.11-12
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Fairfax: Cox, Matthews & Associates, Inc
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2017
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Today, as the music and higher education communities reflect on Conrad's life and career, many cite her college story as a good example of the challenges facing college presidents and chancellors, the impact of decisions some make to protect their institutions and how students endure, survive and persevere despite the developments around them. Dr. Logan Wilson, then UT Austin president, had made the decision after hearing from a state lawmaker who was a friend of the institution that the state legislature might not give the institution as much money as it was seeking if some lawmakers knew a Negro was playing a major role in the play, a role historically played by a White person. The university issued a statement about the casting change, saying it was done to ensure "Miss Smiths well-being and to squelch any possibility that her appearance would precipitate a cut in the university's appropriation," according to an article in The New York Times. Allan R. Keiler, a music professor at Brandeis University and author of the 2002 biography, Marian Anderson: ? Singer's Journey, says in an interview that Anderson never spoke "a tone of meanness, bitterness, blame" about her experiences surrounding the refusal of the...