We Are Texas East Mall Project

“When I first got to UT, it was like, okay, where am I going to stay? Well, the housing was still segregated. And… being raised, we just didn’t participate in things like that, that you were going to split us up. So, I didn’t want to stay on campus. I tried to get an apartment and I could call, ‘Hi, I’m a student at UT looking for an apartment close to this campus.’ ‘Oh, sure, we have one available.’ Well, by the time I would go over there, they’d say, ‘Oh, we just rented it.’ It kept happening.”