at the institution in the latter 1940s, taking advantage of new G.I. Bill of Rights assistance. Conditions were so overcrowded for a time that the former soldiers slept in the gymnasium, and beds were brought from a former prisoner of war camp in Hereford.
=== 1949 West Texas State College ===
In 1949, the school again changed its name, this time to West Texas State College. During the Cold War, attention at West Texas State was focused on anticommunism. One history professor, John Cook, claimed that many of the films shown on campus, such as Communism on the Map, were "propaganda". During this time, too, historian J. Evetts Haley ran for governor of Texas on a staunchly conservative platform, but the office went to Marion Price Daniel Sr.
=== 1963 West Texas State University ===
At its founding the school admitted only white students. The first black student to graduate was Helen Neal in 1962. During the 1960s, the school changed from a regional teacher's college to a state university. In 1963, Governor …
