• The Mansfield school desegregation incident is a 1956 event in the Civil Rights Movement in Mansfield, Texas, a suburb of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex...
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    off one of the longest-running desegregation battles of the Civil Rights Movement. Mansfield's school quietly desegregated in 1965 as it faced a lack of...
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    pioneers in desegregation of higher education Mansfield school desegregation incident Massive resistance New Orleans school desegregation crisis Nikole...
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  • Rights Movement. Hickman's work includes documenting the Mansfield school desegregation incident, as well as the visitation of people such as Martin Luther...
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    Ranger Division to block "desegregation of Mansfield High School in Tarrant County." The Mansfield school desegregation incident was the first state action...
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    Rawdon, required desegregation of Mansfield High School, outside Fort Worth, Texas; see also Mansfield school desegregation incident. 1956: Gayle v. Browder...
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  • Cicero race riot of 1951, July 12, Cicero, Illinois 1956 – Mansfield School Integration Incident 400 pro-segregationists brandishing weapons and racist signage...
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  • Lancaster, New Hampshire (died 1993) Mansfield school desegregation incident: The mayor and police chief of Mansfield, Texas, join a crowd of about 300 white...
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    "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" and stop the desegregation of schools, stood at the door of the auditorium as if to block the entry of...
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  • and negotiations following the incident. Lunch counters in Jacksonville were desegregated in 1961. List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States...
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  • police actions, noting it omitted several important details, such as the incident when the police shot into the Bayview Community Center on September 28...
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    all laws establishing segregated schools to be unconstitutional, and it called for the desegregation of all schools throughout the nation. After the decision...
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  • court delegated the task of carrying out school desegregation to district courts with orders that desegregation occur "with all deliberate speed," a phrase...
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  • Attorney General. On September 13, 1956, just two weeks after the Mansfield incident, John Ben Shepperd brought suit against the Texas Chapter of the National...
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    Kevin White (politician) (category Boston College Law School alumni)
    in the late 1960s and 1970s, and the start of desegregation of schools via court-ordered busing of school children in Boston. White won the mayoral office...
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  • disobedience. Smith believed that White Americans would be more sympathetic to desegregation if African Americans obtained their rights through peaceful demonstration...
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    Desegregation Process in the Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County Public School System, 1954-1969. pp. 64–65. Hamburg, Jay (July 13, 2003). "School...
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  • Boston School Committee was stripped of most of its control over Boston school integration. Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. said that desegregation was not...
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  • The University of Georgia desegregation riot was an incident of mob violence by proponents of racial segregation on January 11, 1961. The riot was caused...
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     214. Raffel, Jeffrey A. (1998). Historical Dictionary of School Segregation and Desegregation: The American Experience. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 90...
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    Thurgood Marshall (category Howard University School of Law alumni)
    imbalances between schools in Detroit, he dissented, criticizing his colleagues for what he viewed as a lack of resolve to implement desegregation even when faced...
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    a leading opponent of mandatory desegregation busing. In 1987, Biden ran for president, but withdrew due to incidents of plagiarism coming to light. The...
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    Retrieved March 18, 2024. "Can We Talk? Learning from Boston's Busing/Desegregation Crisis." YouTube, Mercer Media Relations, 14 Sept. 2012, www.youtube...
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    to school for protection. Soldiers were deployed at the school for the entirety of the school year, although they were unable to prevent incidents of...
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    end of the 1967–68 school year, New Orleans St. Augustine left the LIALO to join the LHSAA as part of the process of desegregation efforts within the...
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    Martin Luther King Jr. (category Boston University School of Theology alumni)
    the city's lunch counters would desegregate in fall 1961, in conjunction with the court-mandated desegregation of schools. Many students were disappointed...
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    campaign. It focused on one goal—the desegregation of Birmingham's downtown merchants, rather than total desegregation, as in Albany. The movement's efforts...
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    Frank Sinatra (category Hoboken High School alumni)
    prejudice on the parents of children. Sinatra played a major role in the desegregation of Nevada hotels and casinos in the 1950s and 1960s. On January 27,...
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  • the creation of a bi-racial committee to oversee the desegregation of Birmingham's public schools. King summarized the philosophy of the Birmingham campaign...
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  • Monson was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), who violently opposed desegregation. The state judge was unsympathetic to his predicament, however, feeling...
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