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Maggie Jackson Briscoe shares her thoughts on the eventual integration of Mansfield schools.

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In Mansfield, everyday life for African Americans was made difficult by Jim Crow laws. Tasks as simple as buying a new pair of shoes were not easy for African Americans. They went into the store knowing their size because they were not allowed to…

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Maggie Jackson Briscoe discusses a conversation she had with a woman in a nursing home about praying about the integration issue.

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McClendon Moody continues to speak about the integration process in Mansfield and what brought about the discussion. The supplies the African American children used were not very good and this gave T.M. Moody the idea to pursue integration. He was…

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“Mac” Moody brings up T.M. Moody, who was involved in the effort to integrate Mansfield schools. He was harassed because of this, which is explained in the transcript, but he still wanted to fight for equal rights. Although he did not have children,…

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McClendon Moody discusses going to school before integration began and how white children treated African American children.

NAACPProbe.mp4
In the weeks following the Mansfield Crisis, Texas Attorney General John Ben Shepperd was granted a temporary injunction against the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People while state lawyers searched through the organization's…

JHH on Saturdays.mp4
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.

JHH on Photo.mp4
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.

JHH First Day of School.mp4
John Howard Hicks, Mansfield high school student bused to I.M. Terrell in Ft. Worth, talks about his first day of school on the day of the desegregation crisis in 1956. It was his preference to go to the school in Ft. Worth and not Mansfield High…
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