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Amarillo Daily News 1956-09-03 This article relates the still simmering tensions in Mansfield. While stating that nothing happened over the weekend, it leaves no doubt that the mob will return on Tuesday to continue to keep black students from enrolling. It also apprises the readers that Floyd Moody, one of the black students from the court case, had registered at a Negro School in Fort Worth. The rest of the article is meant to inform the reader of the current legal battle for the Mansfield School District and what channels of appeal are still available to them.
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Amarillo Daily News 1956-09-01 This article, and the picture that accompanied it on the front page, builds the tension that had already started to boil the day before. It details the mobs’ efforts to search for blacks’ on incoming school buses, as well as a confrontation and shoving match that ensued between the mob and Assistant District Attorney Grady Hight of Fort Worth. Governor Shivers wastes no time in laying blame with the NAACP for the problems at Mansfield as he sends orders to both the Texas Rangers and the school. The NAACP, through attorney L. Clifford Davis, refuses to subject the black students to the threat of violence and unsuccessfully attempts to enroll them via telegram. The article also progresses the courtroom battle for the Mansfield School District saying the appeal in Houston was denied.
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Amarillo Daily News 1956-08-31 This article focuses on the anger of white residents towards the mandate of integration. That anger is directed at black residents who would try to register, the County Sheriff who showed up at the school, and the Judges who are mandating integration. Machine guns in the hands of the mob was mentioned more than once, and threats of violence to one Mansfield black resident shows the lengths to which the white mob is willing to go. The article also states how many school districts are already integrated in the state, as well as the Mansfield School Board’s next step in their fight against integration.
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Amarillo Daily News 1956-08-30 This article relates the reaction from a Federal District judge to an effigy found hanging on Main Street in Mansfield. Equating the seriousness of the effigy to voter fraud, the judge also hints that more trouble may be coming to Mansfield in the next few days. The article also notes the reactions of the Tarrant County Sheriff and L. Clifford Davis, neither of whom takes the effigy to be a “threat of violence” against the blacks of Mansfield.