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Floyd Moody says he was not bitter or angry about integration events in 1956, he said about the white citizens of Mansfield, "they were raised up not having black folk in their school, maybe it wasn't that much against the race of black people, it…

Floyd Moody remembers hearing the words he wanted to hear from Superintendent R. L. Huffman with regard to integration of Mansfield High School.

Floyd Moody remembers the owner of the land his father was a sharecropper on encouraging his father not to enroll his son at Mansfield High School.

Floyd Moody says, "What really bothered me is the fact that our President, Eisenhower didn't do anything about anything."

Kenneth Pressley discusses his memories of the scene at Mansfield High School in 1956, including the hanging effigy. "It was a different world back then," Pressley said.

Kenneth Pressley discusses the events he witnessed at Mansfield High School in 1956 during the attempt to integrate the school. He says now it seems like "it's just a part of history."

Kenneth Pressley discusses when integration in Mansfield schools took place in 1965.

Kenneth Pressley discusses why he thinks some Mansfield residents were upset about the integration efforts of 1956 during an oral history interview.

John Howard Hicks, long time Mansfield resident, tells how the African-Americans would meet in town on a street corner in Mansfield, to hang out and tell stories.

John Howard Hicks, Mansfield high school student bused to I.M. Terrell in Ft. Worth because of Mansfield High School's segregation policy, discusses the picture taken of the five students by the bus that drove them to Ft. Worth.