Prairie View A&M College President Dr. Edward B. Evans Defends School (1963)

Duration: 1:46

Year Published: 1963

Sound: sound

Description: In this news segment for Houston’s KPRC-TV, broadcast on February 11, 1963, Prairie View A&M College President Dr. Edward B. Evans defends the work of the institution and its graduates following an unfavorable third-party evaluation. Now known as Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View A&M is a historically black university located in Prairie View, northwest of Houston. Founded in 1876, the university is the state's second oldest public institution of higher education, and its first state-supported college established specifically for African Americans. Evans’ was the institution’s eighth president and first president, serving from 1947 to 1966.