Mizzou History Trivia Quiz Answers
10. In the winter of 1935 four graduates of Lincoln University, a traditionally black school, applied for admission to enter MU professional or graduate schools. The Board of Curators refused entrance, because the constitution and laws of Missouri had established a separate educational system for white and Negro students. Lloyd L. Gaines, one of the four students, filed a suit that proceeded all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1939 the Court handed down a decision that paved the way for desegregation of schools, but in the mean time Gaines had disappeared. Black students were finally admitted to regular MU classes in 1950.
Lloyd Gaines
(The African-American Experience at the University of Missouri, 1950-1994, by the University of Missouri-Columbia Black Alumni Association)
11. While some pieces from the Cast Museum are housed in Swallow Hall where the Department of Art History and Archaeology is located, the majority of the collection, previously in Mizzou North as part of the collections of the Museum of Art and Archaeology, is now in Room 202 of Ellis Library. The cast collection was housed in Pickard Hall from ca. 1975 until 2012, when it was moved to Mizzou North. At other times, it had been housed in Jesse Hall and Ellis Library. Professor John Pickard, who founded the Department of Art and Archaeology in 1892, went to Europe before World War I to select plaster casts of famous works of classical sculpture. After World War II many such collections were destroyed and, since museums no longer allow such castings for fear of damaging the originals, MU has one of the few surviving examples of this old teaching tool.
The Cast Museum in 1942.
12. Sanborn Field, located at the corner of College and Rollins, has been the site of research investigations on soil treatments, erosion and cropping systems since it was established in 1888. It is also where the organism streptomyces aureofaciens, the source of the drug Aureomycin, was first found in a soil sample. Sanborn Field was designated as a Registered National Historic Landmark in 1965.
Sanborn Field
13. Many of the buildings located on the East campus were built between 1913-1914 and were constructed of white limestone.