TSU Protest

This unedited footage from Houston's KPRC-TV captures a protest at Texas Southern University on April 3, 1967. Students march across campus before staging a blockade across Wheeler Avenue, a bisecting thoroughfare. Students had conducted protests across campus for nearly a week following the administration's ousting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee chapter. The protests led to the arrest of three individuals: Franklin Alexander, a national leader of the W. E. DuBois Clubs; Reverend Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, co-chairman of Friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; and Lee Otis Johnson, a former student. Students led a march to and vigil outside the Harris County Courthouse the following day to protest the arrests.