70 Years After Mansfield’s Desegregation Crisis, a New Debate Over Representation

Seventy years ago, Black students in Mansfield went to federal court for the right to attend their own public schools. On August 30, 1956, their effort to enroll at Mansfield High School was met by an angry white mob and three effigies hanging at the school’s doors, even after a federal appeals court ordered Mansfield […] The post 70 Years After Mansfield’s Desegregation Crisis, a New Debate Over Representation appeared first on The Texas Observer.