Postcard from Alice Embree to Campus Police Chief Hamilton, reproduced in “The Spies of Texas”

Postcard from Alice Embree to Campus Police Chief Hamilton, reproduced in “The Spies of Texas”

Student activism--Texas; Police surveillance--Universities; University of Texas at Austin; Campus protests--1960s

This image reproduces a handwritten postcard sent by Alice Embree to a University of Texas campus police chief, as published in a 2006 investigative article in The Texas Observer. In the message, Embree describes a protest incident involving a student literature table that was disrupted and participants who were arrested, adopting a sarcastic tone that reflects activists’ awareness of police monitoring.

Alice Embree

The Texas Observer, “The Spies of Texas,” by Thorne Dreyer, November 17, 2006

Hidden Histories: UT Austin

March 1965 (postmark)

Thorne Dreyer (reproduction context); Jennifer Ferrell Brantley

Materials reproduced with permission of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. Items are made available for educational and research use. Further publication, reproduction, or commercial use may require additional permission from the repository and/or rights holders.

Original item: Alice Embree Papers, 1933-2023, Box #4x219c, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin

Still image; reproduction of postcard (printed text with handwritten annotation)

English

Photographs (reproduced image)

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Austin, Texas; 1965