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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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Papers of the NAACP
The Board of Directors for the NAACP met monthly at their national headquarters and business discussed in these meetings was recorded in these papers.…
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News Media Coverage of the Crisis
In the summer of 1956 Mansfield High School became the first high school ordered to desegregate by a federal court...
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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…