 The campus did not witness significant integration-era disruption.The University of Florida was the first state university to integrate, and racial integration was achieved there with far less turmoil than most Southern universities and colleges.The University's relative openness to racial immigration was one reason the Johns Committee (completely opposed to integration) focused on the University of Florida; the Committee's first focus was to be the NAACP and any other outsiders who were communist or communist-leaning.