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Mansfield students enter high school under the shadow of an effigy.
An effigy hangs above the entrance to Mansfield High School as students file in the building on August 30, 1956. The effigy was hung as a protest to…
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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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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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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…