It was not until 1966 that Dallas Seminary accepted its first Black student. A few years later, with still only a handful of Black students on campus, one of them asked John Walvoord, the president, why there was not more concerted effort at recruiting eager Black would-be seminarians. That student was Tony Evans, who would become the seminary’s first Black PhD recipient and a nationally known pastor and author. Writing years later, Evans recalled Walvoord responding, “Tony, I’m not a fighter. I kind of go with the law—the protocol.”
