BEFORE LITTLE ROCK: A Civil Rights Pastor’s Mission to Make Sure Mansfield’s 1956 Crisis Is Never Forgotten.
BEFORE LITTLE ROCK: A Civil Rights Pastor’s Mission to Make Sure Mansfield’s 1956 Crisis Is Never Forgotten. Historical Figures: https://youtu.be/EB7_QbnmAyA?is=HT_eOsbn9uINpxS_ By Black Texans, Inc. Long before nine Black students walked through the doors of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, another confrontation over school desegregation had already erupted in a small Texas town. It was 1956 ( https://vimeo.com/756520277 ). The place was Mansfield. And for decades, much of America barely knew the story. THE CRISIS BEFORE LITTLE ROCK. UNT Online Museum: https://omeka.library.unt.edu/ s/the-crisis-at-mansfield/ page/welcome The Mansfield school desegregation crisis unfolded one year before Little Rock became an international symbol of resistance to Brown v. Board of Education . Black students sought to attend Mansfield High School under a federal desegregation order. White residents gathered in opposition. An effigy was hung. State and local a...