The Rainey Controversy at the University of Texas

Academic Freedom. A World War. A University of the First Class.

On November 1, 1944, the Regents of the University of Texas fired UT president, Homer Price Rainey.  Why he was fired – and what happened next –  depends on which side is telling it. Was Rainey an incompetent administrator responsible for a University full of communists, pornographic English assignments, and homosexuals? Was the Board full of corrupt businessmen appointed to destroy tenure in the University?

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Exhibit Sections

1. “The Charges”

2. “The Men Who Fired Rainey”

3. “A Coffin Labeled Academic Freedom”

4. “Letters to the Regents”

5. “A Vote for Rainey”