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The Desegregation of Public Schools

Desegregation of Texas schools

The integration of public schools occurred across the South after the Brown v. Board of Education decision.  Efforts to desegregate Mansfield High School in 1956 failed.  Other towns , using either federal or state resources to enforce hte Supreme Court's decision, succeeded in integrating their public schools.

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