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Mansfield High School: Texas Ranger, students, and effigy
In this photograph, Mansfield residents surround one of two Texas Rangers in front of Mansfield High School in late August 1956. The Texas Rangers…
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Local Records from Mansfield, Texas
This collection includes excerpts from the Mansfield African American Oral History Project, which was published in 1996. It also includes Mansfield…
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Jim Crow Mansfield
The effects of Jim Crow were evident all over Mansfield, Texas, from Farr Best Movie Theater where African Americans were...
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HistoryPin Collection
This map shows chronologically the date in which schools in Texas desegregated from 1954-1957.
Jackson v. Rawdon - Filed by L. Clifford Davis - September 26, 1955.
Complaints and requests filed by Davis on September 26, 1955 on behalf of African American students of high school age in Mansfield, Texas against…
Jackson v. Rawdon - Plaintiff Motion for Preliminary Injunction
On October 7, 1955, L. Clifford Davis filed a request for preliminary injunction to enjoin and restrain the defendants, including O.C. Rawdon, School…