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SCHOOL PEACEFUL AT MANSFIELD
CITY SIGN
It was a year ago that the Tarrant County town of Mansfield shouted defiance at a federal court order to integrate its schools. Angry, milling crowds prevented the entry of Negro students at Mansfield High School and threatened violence to any outsider who came near. Today, only playful students appear on the campus as Mansfield starts another school year. Many of them are the same students who joined the angry crowds of last year. The effigies hanged on the flagpole and atop the school last year do not appear. Neither do any Negro students. They are taken by bus to school in Fort Worth. Mansfield still segregated. Says one student, "We're sorry we don't have a dummy hanging up for you." Superintendent Huffman, who refuses to be photographed, is asked if he has had any unwelcome visitors. He replies, "Not unless
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: School peaceful at Mansfield],
script,
September 3, 1957;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc813859/m1/1/:
accessed July 17, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
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