Civil rights lawyer Asberry Butler, the second African American elected to the HISD Board of Trustees. With colleagues Hattie Mae White and Gertrude Barnstone, Butler successfully pushed to racially integrate Houston’s public schools. He served on the board from 1964 to 1968.
Howard D. Moon explains how the school district can offer free or reduced-price meals to students
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This news segment for Houston’s KPRC-TV captures a meeting of the Houston Independent School District Board of Trustees. At the meeting, Howard D. Moon presents the results of his study on the need for a free lunch program. Later, he tells reporters how reimbursements from the state and federal government will pay for the program. HISD, then the sixth-largest school district in the country, joined the National School Lunch Program in 1968.