Jennifer Cumberbatch: Actor, playwright, counselor, pastor of Full Measure Ministries, and founder of JR Cumberbatch Productions

Rowena Dasch: Executive Director of the Neill-Cochran House Museum, PhD in 19th Century American Art

Ginger Geyer: Visual artist working in porcelain sculpture with a 3 decade background in museum management and architecture, lay pastoral degree from the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest

Dwonna Naomi Goldstone is an associate professor at Texas State University, where she directs the African American Studies Program. Her book Integrating the Forty Acres: A Fifty-Year Struggle for Racial Equality at the University of Texas won the Coral H. Tullis Memorial Prize for the best book on Texas history. She received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in American Civilization and is currently at work on an article about Barbara Smith, a black undergraduate student at the University of Texas in its first year of integration (1956-7) who was removed from the school’s opera after protests by lawmakers.

Austin attorney Bill Lyons was born in Tyler and recruited to play basketball at the University of Texas in the late 1960s. Despite a career-ending injury, he remained heavily involved in UT athletics, helping recruit and befriending black athletes — including Earl Campbell. "When I came to UT, it felt like there were about 40 black people on the Forty Acres," he once said for an oral history of integration at UT. "I made it my business to use athletics as an an avenue to bring more black students to Texas." Lyons graduated with a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law.

Join Hotel Ella and UMLAUF Sculpture Garden & Museum for a conversation with Asher Price and Bill Lyons. The night will allow for a behind-the-scenes look at how UT went from the last all-white national football championship team to recruiting the legendary Earl Campbell just a few years later.

As always, Salon Series events are free and open to the public.

Tuesday, November 12th, 6-8pm

in Goodall's

 1900 Rio Grande

Conversation begins at 6:30pm.

Capacity is limited. Kindly RSVP to reserve your spot.
Beverages available for purchase during event.

This Salon Series is in partnership with UMLAUF Sculpture Garden & Museum. At the courtesy of UMLAUF, attendees will receive a complimentary day pass to the garden and museum.

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