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POSTWAR GROWTH & PRESERVATION MOVEMENT (1945-1992) <br />Racial segregation <br />Public schools ordered <br />in schools ruled <br />to desegregate "with <br />Texas State Historical unconstitutional in <br />all deliberate speed" <br />Survey Committee Brown v. Board of <br />in Brown v. Board of <br />established. Education. <br />Education 11. <br />1951 <br />New high school for <br />white students built <br />at former Coronal <br />Institute site. <br />1953 <br />The Army Airfield was <br />renamed Gary Air <br />Force Base for the first <br />local soldier killed in <br />WWII. <br />1954 <br />Travis Junior High and <br />Bowie Elementary <br />opened for White <br />students. <br />Paul Rogers platted <br />Spring Lake Hills <br />subdivision. <br />n PE <br />1955 <br />The Board of Trustees <br />voted to integrate <br />African American <br />students with Anglo <br />American and Mexican <br />American students in <br />August, two months <br />after Brown v. Board of <br />Education II decision. <br />�14 <br />19S2 Aquarena Theatre <br />(Popular Mechanics) <br />1953 ROTC Parade <br />(Courtesy of SMPL) <br />SAN MARCOS HISTORIC PRESERVATION PLAN (2026) <br />