News and Personal Appearances
Gary
Lavergne is a veteran guest and commentator on almost every major network and
cable news show. Click
here
to see a list of his past appearances. He is also noted for
his sharp wit. Click
here
for just a few of his more memorable quotes.
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U.S. Supreme Court Case
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CO tragedy evokes 1966 tower
killings
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Spring Issue of the TSCHS
Issue 3 of the Society's new e-journal was distributed to members in late
February. It features the second half of David Furlow's article on the
Castiian influence on Texas law as Download Gary's article only now: TSCHS-Spring2012-excerpt.pdf |
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Gary is presented with the prestigious Heman Sweatt Symposium Award of Appreciation... Gary Lavergne received Heman Sweatt Symposium Award of Appreciation for Before Brown. The award was presented on February 8, 2012 during the opening ceremonies by Dr. Greg Vincent, Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement, in John Hargis Hall at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Before Brown Awarded the Writers' League of Texas Award for Best Book of Non Fiction With over 200 entries, the 2011 Writers' League of Texas Book Awards Contest was more competitive than ever before. A big congratulations to the four winners below! The WLT will recognize the winners at our January Third Thursday meeting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 19 at BookPeople in Austin.
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From NPR |
On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr.
speaks with Gary M. Lavergne, author of Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt,
Thurgood Marshall and the Long Road To Justice. On February 26, 1946, a
33-year-old African American mail carrier from Houston, TX applied for
admission to the University of Texas School of Law. Although he met all of
the school’s academic qualifications, Heman Marion Sweatt was denied
admission because of his race. He challenged the university’s decision in
court, and the resulting case, Sweatt v. Painter, went to the U.S. Supreme
Court, which ruled in Sweatt’s favor. The Sweatt case paved the way for
the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka rulings that finally
opened the doors to higher education for all African Americans and
desegregated public education in this country. |
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34th Annual LASE/LASS Joint Conference"What Goes Around: 25 Years of Strateegeery"Keynote Address by Gary M. Lavergne, Author and Educator and Director of Admissions Research at the University of Texas at Austin
Sunday, 2:30pm, November 13, 2011
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Integration and Race Relations in Texas
The discussion will be moderated by Jennifer Stayton, Morning Edition Host for KUT.
Moderator:
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BOB BULLOCK TEXAS HISTORY MUSEUM presents Integration and Race Relations in Texas
Wednesday, June 22, 7 p.m. |
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Before BrownAwarded the Carr P. Collins Award for Best Work of Non Fiction at the Annual Awards Banquet of the Texas Institute of Letters...
The Carr P. Collins Award is awarded annually to the best non-fiction book published during the calendar year. This year the awards banquet was held on April 30th in Dallas.
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March 4, 2011
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Before BrownAwarded the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History at the Annual Meeting of the Texas State Historical Association
The Tullis Memorial Prize is awarded annually to the best book on Texas published during the calendar year. This year the awards banquet was held on March 4th in El Paso. |
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'Diverse in the Heart'A Texas admissions expert tells the long-forgotten tale of a pioneer in integrationBy Eric Hoover Austin, Tex. "Long before James Meredith became the first black man to enroll at the University of Mississippi, before a handful of black college students started a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., and before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., a 33-year-old mail carrier walked into the registrar's office at the University of Texas. His name was Heman Marion Sweatt, and he sought admission to the university's law school. He might as well have chosen to walk into a hurricane...." Click here to read the entire feature |
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Heman Marion Sweatt: The Unsung Civil Rights HeroAs a guest blogger for the American Constitution Society, Gary Lavergne discusses his new book Before Brown ... |
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From NPR: Station KUT 90.5FM |
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ALCALDE, the magazine of Texas Exes, the UT Alumni Association, features an excerpt of BEFORE BROWN with an introduction by Gary Lavergne in its September/October 2010 issue. Click here to read the excerpt. |
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'Before Brown' When people talk about the demolition of the doctrine of "separate but equal," the case everyone focuses on is Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1954 ruling. Four years earlier, however, the Supreme Court rejected that doctrine in a higher education case -- one that set the legal framework for Brown and helped shape the strategy of Thurgood Marshall in his assault on Jim Crow in education... See more including an interview with Gary M. Lavergne... |
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Cedar Park man writes for a new perspective
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 by Amy Fowler of the Cedar Park
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Gary Lavergne is the subject of a feature article by Maggi Davis in the Spring 2010 issue of burntOrange magazine. burntOrange is published twice a year by magazine students working under the guidance of faculty members. The magazine has finished first (2007) and second (2008) for General Excellence (Single Issue, Ongoing Magazine) in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication national magazine contests. |
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Gary Lavergne honored by UT President William Powers with Outstanding
Staff Service Award On May 7, 2009 University of Texas President William Powers presented certificates and bonuses to thirty university employees during the The President's Staff Awards reception in the Texas Union Ballroom. Gary was one of those honored. The Outstanding Staff and Supervisor Awards Program recognizes non-teaching UT Austin employees who have made outstanding contributions to the continuing success of the university. Click here for a video tribute prepared by the University's Human Resources staff. |
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Gary Lavergne
represents American Higher Education in Paris symposiums On April 14, 2008, the French Ministry of Higher Education, convened a conference exploring equity and access to France’s premier colleges and universities. Two American researchers... |
Gary Lavergne makes
appearance on ABC's Good Morning America
Gary was interviewed for an appearance on Good Morning America on August 1, 2009
on the anniversary of the UT Tower Tragedy. Click
here to see his
appearance.
Gary Lavergne receives
the Trailblazers Award at annual banquet
Gary Lavergne delivers brief remarks after accepting the Trailblazers Award.
Shortly afterwards he and Laura made another donation to the Lodge's charitable
efforts.
Gary Lavergne chosen to
moderate 2004 Texas Book Festival session
"Today I have the honor and pleasure of moderating this session, entitled
"Inside the Mind of a Killer..."
Gary Lavergne appears on
MSNBC to comment on the DC Sniper
On October 16, 2002, Rick Sanchez, morning anchor of MSNBC Live, interviewed
Gary Lavergne about the similarities and differences between the Washington,
DC-area sniper and Charles Whitman, the University of Texas Tower sniper. Nine
days before the alleged snipers were apprehended, Gary warned that "[the sniper]
kind of defies a lot of what you hear profilers saying...
Gary Lavergne honored as
Outstanding Alumnus by the University of Louisiana-Lafayette
For each of the past twenty-six years, the University of Louisiana at
Lafayette's College of Education has honored one or more persons as an
Outstanding Alumnus of the College. This tribute for those graduating from the
Class of 1976 was paid on the evening of April 19, 2001... "
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CHECK YOUR LOCAL LISTINGS
E! Entertainment
Network Gary appeared in a special entitled
Going Postal: 15 Shocking Acts of Violence
DATELINE NBC--MSNBC--CNBC In his second appearance on DATELINE NBC Gary appeared as a commentator during a show entitled 10 Amazing Crimes Caught on Tape. The Charles Whitman Murders was "#2" on the countdown show and featured Gary Lavergne, the author of A Sniper in the Tower. Click here to see an excerpt. Check your local listing for time and channel for reruns on NBC and cable affiliates! Biography -- A&E Network Gary appeared in a one-hour episode about Charles Whitman, the University of Texas Tower Sniper. Check your local listing for time and channel.
True Crime Authors -- The History Channel Gary Lavergne was the subject of a one hour special in a History Channel series called TRUE CRIME AUTHORS. Check your local listings for reruns. DATELINE NBC--MSNBC--CNBC Special on the Charles Whitman Murders featured Gary Lavergne, the author of A Sniper in the Tower first broadcast on DATELINE NBC. Check your local listing for time and channel for reruns on NBC and cable affiliates! AMERICAN JUSTICE -- The A&E Network This episode, hosted by Bill Kurtis, was entitled "Free To Murder Again" and was the story of Kenneth Allen McDuff, the title character of Gary's book Bad Boy From Rosebud. Parts of the special were filmed in Gary's home in Cedar Park, Texas. THE PROSECUTORS -- The Discovery Channel This was THE PROSECUTORS first show in its regular time slot. It featured an hour-long docudrama on Kenneth Allen McDuff, the topic of Gary's book THE BAD BOY FROM ROSEBUD. The title of the episode was "Release Me." DR. G: MEDICAL EXAMINER -- The Discovery Health Channel Using cutting-edge forensic science and technology to solve the mysteries of life and death, Dr. G: Medical Examiner explores the cases that come through a medical examiner's office in Florida. In this epsiode, Dr. G looks back at the UT Tower shooting.
TALES OF THE GUN -- The History Channel In an episode called Guns of Infamy, part 2, Gary commented on the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Huey P. Long. There was also a large segment on the Charles Whitman murders at The University of Texas at Austin in 1966. |
Where has Gary appeared? Click here to see where he has been.
| Gary's Bio |Before Brown| Worse Than Death| Bad Boy From Rosebud | Sniper in the Tower | Cajuns |
