KXAS News Script: "Mansfield is Quiet After Demonstration"
Mansfield begins registration and a mob forms outside the school for the first time.
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 flew to Houston to meet with the fifth circuit court of appeals in hopes of obtaining a stay order that would overrule Este’s order. On this day a second effigy was hung in protest on the flagpole outside the school. No Negros showed up this day to register.
KXAS News Script: "Mansfield is Quiet After Demonstration", UNT special collections, KXAS-TV/NBC-5, Fort Worth Tx.
KXAS-TV/NBC-5
1956-08-30
KXAS News Script: "Mansfield"
The small town of Mansfield is fighting a legal battle over Mansfield.
During the days prior to the crisis at Mansfield High many citizens opposed and supported the decision to integrate Mansfield High School. Federal Judge Joe Estes ordered the school to admit Negros and to integrate immediately. Jemmie Moody mother of Floyd Moody, a student of I.M. Terrell High School in Fort Worth, wanted her son to attend Mansfield High because of its close proximity to their house. Of those who opposed the decision was Mansfield superintendent R. L. Huffman. Huffman acting in accordance with the school board and a lawyer asked for a delay of one year for the court order to take effect and to appeal the court order.
KXAS-TV News Script: "Mansfield" UNT special collections, KXA-TV/NBC-5, Fort Worth Tx.
KXAS-TV/NBC-5
1956-08-28