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• Albert Gore Letter January 31, 1964
  A letter from Albert Gore to his constituents assuring them that he would not support the proposed civil rights bill unless amendments were made to make the bill like the previous Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960.
• Field Reports on Desegregation in the South by John Howard Griffin and Theodore Freedman
• KXAS/NBC5 Mansfield Report
  KXAS report on Mansfield integration attempts in 1956, by Kristi Nelson.
• The Waco Horror
  The article described the mob lynching of a seventeen year old African American named Jesse Washington on May 15, 1916 in Waco, Texas. Jesse was accused of murder and found guilty but prior to his sentencing within the packed courtroom a mob drug him out of the building, stabbed him multiple times, cut off his fingers when he tried to grab the chain tied to him, lynched him, and then set his body on fire. Many citizens gathered at the square and partook in the mayhem. The crowd mutilated the body once he died and collected souvenirs from the event. Stories like The Waco Horror took place across America and represented illegal actions and the lack of the due process provided to African Americans who lived under the Jim Crow laws of the south. The article concluded indicating that 2,843 African American men were lynched between 1885 and 1916.
• Floyd Moody discusses utilities in west Mansfield.
  Floyd Moody talks about going for water, doing homework by a kerosine lamp, and cutting wood to heat up the house on a wood stove.
• Floyd Moody talks about what he did for leisure growing up in Mansfield.
  Floyd Moody talks about Farr Best Theater in Mansfield.
• Floyd Moody talks about his satisfaction with the way things went.
  Floyd Moody recalls that he was satisfied with being able to graduate with his friends and continue to play football at IM Terrell rather than going to Mansfield High School.
• Dallas Express 1956-09-08
  This article, also found as a small piece in a larger discussion of integration, discussed the events in Mansfield in conjunction with integration statewide. It focused on Governor Shivers’ actions, as well as the mob. It followed up with accusations that liberal whites were condoning this behavior by not speaking out against the actions taken by the Governor and the mob.
• Dallas Express 1956-09-08
  This article brought Mansfield into the national conversation on integration. It mentioned integration issues at Clinton, TN, Mansfield, Dallas, and Houston, TX, and Birmingham, AL.
• The Dallas Express 1956-09-08
  This small portion was mixed into a larger piece on the struggle for integration in the country. It focused on Governor Shivers’ actions in regards to Mansfield. It also stated that he broke the law in defying the order from a federal judge.
• Senator Albert Gore's letters to a citizen.
  Gore stated why he cannot support the new civil rights legislation.
• Supreme Court justices in Brown v. Board
  The justices ruled that segregated schools for blacks and whites were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional.
• Heman Sweatt registering at the University of Texas School of Law
  Heman Sweatt sued the University of Texas in order to gain entrance into its school of law.
• Memorandum in Gaines v. Canada
  A memorandum calling for an investigation into the discriminatory practices in the graduate program at the University of Missouri.
• Supreme Court Decision Plessy v. Ferguson
  In Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public places was constitutional as long as conditions were equal.
• KXAS News Script: NAACP to Fight Restraining Order
  A state official served the Dallas branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People with legal papers restraining the organization from further operation until a trial is convened.
• KXAS News Script: NAACP Ouster Suit Is Heard At Tyler
  Judge Otis T. Dunagan hears testimony from both the state of Texas and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Alabama Attorney General McDonald Gallion sat in on the proceedings to bring a similar suit against the NAACP in his state.
• KXAS News Script: NAACP Trial Continues
  Court convened for the 17th day of the trial between the state of Texas and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. State Attorney General John Ben Shepperd accused the organization of barratry while Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP said the state used intimidation and threats on black litigants to keep them from testifying.
• Norman Rockwell's "The Problem We all Live With"
  A young African American student required an escort to school in New Orleans.
• Pastor Floyd Moody records an oral history interview with student Kim Moody (no relation).
  Pastor Floyd Moody, a plaintiff in Jackson v. Rawdon, discusses his life in Mansfield during the Jim Crow era, the crisis itself, and the integration of Mansfield during a 2015 oral history interview.
• News Clip: New Racial Strife in Fort Worth ; Mansfield
  Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany two news stories. The first is about protests and demonstrations against an African American family who recently moved onto an all-white street in a racially mixed neighborhood. Second is a story about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Minton granting Mansfield high school the opportunity to delay a court order requiring the school to admit African American students
• The Dallas Express 1956-09-15
  This article was written nearly two weeks after the Mansfield Crisis. It approached the events in a moralistic tone, describing the actions by whites as contradictory to the Christian beliefs in which they held. Using quotes from the Bible, it displayed the conflict between the actions of the white Texans (from the mob to Governor Shivers) and the ideas behind Christianity. It finished the article with a condemnation of the Dallas News Editorial Department and their attempts to describe the events at Mansfield as not against the law.
• The Dallas Express 1956-09-15
  This article ran on the same day in the Dallas Express and the Houston Informer. Both were front page news articles. It described an interview given by Floyd Moody denying quotes that were attributed to him in some white newspapers. It also stressed why he and his family wanted to go to school in Mansfield.
• The Dallas Express 1956-09-08
  This article, surrounding the Mansfield Crisis, was began on the bottom of the front page. It gave a general description of the mob and their actions, but went into greater detail surrounding L. Clifford Davis’ actions. It also gave a reason why he appealed to Governor Shivers instead of utilizing the courts and Judge Estes. It finished with a focus on the black citizens of Mansfield; why the parents wanted their children to go to school in Mansfield as well as a small portion about Floyd Moody.
• The Dallas Express 1956-09-08
  This article was a headline the weekend following the Mansfield Crisis. While Mansfield was mentioned on the same page, the violence surrounding the Lloyd G. Austin in Fort Worth, as well as his refusal to submit to a violent mob, was attention grabbing.