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- Collection: TV News Coverage (KXAS/NBC)
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KXAS News Script: "Mansfield is Quiet After Demonstration"
On the Morning of August 30th 1956 a mob of some 200-400 persons gathered outside Mansfield High school. Early that week Judge Joe Estes had issued a federal court order to desegregate Mansfield High School. Attorney for the school board J. A. Gooch…
KXAS News Script: "Mansfield Continues To Defy Court Order"
For the second day in a row a mob formed outside Mansfield High School to keep Negro students from registering. On this day Governor Allan Shivers sent Texas Rangers to the town to keep peace but not to intimidate any of the Mansfield citizens.…
KXAS News Script: "Dummy Hanging at Mansfield Probed"
After Mansfield High School was ordered to desegregate an effigy was hung in protest of the decision. The Effigy was hung in Mansfield’s main street on wires. Signs were attached to both feet of the dummy and red paint was splattered across the…
KXAS News Script-Probe of NAACP in Dallas Continues
A news script and corresponding video from the KXAS news station on September 14, 1956, show lawyers from the state attorney general’s office searching through records at the Dallas NAACP offices. Attorney General John Ben Sheppard acquired a…