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Pastor Floyd Moody records an oral history interview with student Kim Moody (no relation).
Pastor Floyd Moody, a plaintiff in Jackson v. Rawdon, discusses his life in Mansfield during the Jim Crow era, the crisis itself, and the integration…
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Images of The Mansfield Crisis
A collection of images of the crisis at Mansfield that include effigies hanging in front of the school and the mob crowded outside, to the Ku Klux…
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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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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…