 The Florida legislature, in an apparent response to the pressures for integration and to FAMU students' activism, in 1965 defunded the FAMU law school, which soon closed, and set up a new one at FSU the following year.Governor Bob Graham (1979-1987) spoke repeatedly in favor of the merging of Florida A&M University with the formerly all-white Florida State University, which admitted its first African-American student in 1962.Merger was discussed in the Education Committee of several legislative sessions.