L. Clifford Davis, Who Fought to Desegregate Texas Schools, Dies at 100
As a civil rights lawyer who faced resistance and threats, he challenged school districts that tried to defy the Supreme ...
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To Desegregate, Ride the Bus
Rosa Parks took a seat to take a stand. These days, prejudice pushes people into bus seats, not out of them. The descendants of Europeans wouldn’t even think of letting go of their cars, for car ...
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Schools Desegregate
Announcer: At home the cause of freedom meets so severe test in New Orleans, Louisiana. Federal Court orders to disaggregate public schools meet opposition. Negro mothers calmly show the way as ...
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L. Clifford Davis, civil rights attorney who fought to desegregate North Texas schools, has died at 100 years old
L. Clifford Davis, a civil rights attorney who fought to desegregate North Texas schools, has died at 100 years old, his family confirmed to WFAA. Davis was born on Oct. 12, 1924 and never ...
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Civil rights activist Judge Clifford Davis, who fought to desegregate North Texas schools, dies
L. Clifford Davis, the first Black judge elected in Tarrant County, died Feb. 15. He was 100 years old. In 1983, Davis began serving as the district judge of Criminal District Court No. 2 in ...
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Remembering L. Clifford Davis, Who Fought to Desegregate Texas Schools
As of 1957, three years after Brown v. Board of Education called for schools to desegregate, the vast majority of Texas school districts had not yet begun the process. Many, including Mansfield ...