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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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Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower
This collection contains letters from President Eisenhower to Governor Shivers, press conference drafts and notes, press conference transcripts, an…
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Road to Civil Rights Act of 1964
After the incidents in the mid 1950s, Congress passed civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, and 1964. The Civil Rights...
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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…