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News Script: Negro Agrees to sell Judkins House Covers the story of Lloyd G. Austins decision to sell his house after the violent protest that occurred outside his house the previous day.
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KXAS/NBC5 Mansfield Report KXAS report on Mansfield integration attempts in 1956, by Kristi Nelson.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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KXAS News Video: Probe of NAACP in Dallas Continues
In the weeks following the Mansfield Crisis, Texas Attorney General John Ben Shepperd was granted a temporary injunction against the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People while state lawyers searched through the organization's records, looking for evidence of barratry and tax fraud.
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KXAS News Script: "Mansfield School Opens" A mob formed outside Mansfield high school for a third time on September 4th, the first day of school and the last day of registration. Texas Rangers were on the scene to make sure no violence erupted. Superintendent Huffman followed Shivers order to transfer out any Negro student who tried to register. On this day two notable persons arrived to make right the situation at Mansfield. A man named “Jesus Christ” asks permission to take down the effigy hanging from the flagpole but receives no help and vows to come back with a ladder but never returns. A second man named Reverend D. W. Clark shows up calling for the mod to disperse. Reverend Clark is escorted away by a Texas Ranger. The mob leaves quietly when it is certain that no Negro will register. The school board continues to fight for a delay of court order but Mansfield does not integrate.
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KXAS News Script: "New Racial Strife in Fort Worth" 20 miles North of Mansfield another incident involving integration occurred. Lloyd G. Austin and his family moved into an all white neighborhood and this action was met with mob violence. The White Citizens Council of the area meets to discuss what action must be taken in the case of Austin. A mob forms around Austin house and stones and soda bottles are thrown causing windows to breaks. Austin proceeds to fire a shot at a nearby car in defense. Police later show up and the crowd begins to leave.
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KXAS News Script: "Mansfield" After the display of mob violence U.S. Supreme Court Justin Minton grants Mansfield high school the opportunity to delay the court order issued by Estes. This delay would allow the Mansfield school board to lawfully refrain from opening the high schools doors to Negros. Another effigy is mentioned. This effigy was hung above the front doors of the high school and becomes the third figure to appear in protest.
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KXAS News Script: "Mansfield Continues To Defy Court Order" For the second day in a row a mob formed outside Mansfield High School to keep Negro students from registering. On this day Governor Allan Shivers sent Texas Rangers to the town to keep peace but not to intimidate any of the Mansfield citizens. Assistant District Attorney Grady Hight is escorted from the scene when a heated verbal exchange breaks out but Hight walks away uninjured. Also on this day a camera is broken but no other altercations occur. Three Negro students attempted to enroll via telegram but are denied because they must appear in person to register. Attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) announces that no Negro students will register so long as there is a threat of mob violence.
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KXAS News Script: "Mansfield is Quiet After Demonstration" On the Morning of August 30th 1956 a mob of some 200-400 persons gathered outside Mansfield High school. Early that week Judge Joe Estes had issued a federal court order to desegregate Mansfield High School. Attorney for the school board J. A. Gooch flew to Houston to meet with the fifth circuit court of appeals in hopes of obtaining a stay order that would overrule Este’s order. On this day a second effigy was hung in protest on the flagpole outside the school. No Negros showed up this day to register.
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KXAS News Script: "Dummy Hanging at Mansfield Probed" After Mansfield High School was ordered to desegregate an effigy was hung in protest of the decision. The Effigy was hung in Mansfield’s main street on wires. Signs were attached to both feet of the dummy and red paint was splattered across the effigy. Police believed that this was not the work of mere pranksters. This effigy became the first of three figures that appeared during the crisis at Mansfield.
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KXAS News Script: "Mansfield"
During the days prior to the crisis at Mansfield High many citizens opposed and supported the decision to integrate Mansfield High School. Federal Judge Joe Estes ordered the school to admit Negros and to integrate immediately. Jemmie Moody mother of Floyd Moody, a student of I.M. Terrell High School in Fort Worth, wanted her son to attend Mansfield High because of its close proximity to their house. Of those who opposed the decision was Mansfield superintendent R. L. Huffman. Huffman acting in accordance with the school board and a lawyer asked for a delay of one year for the court order to take effect and to appeal the court order.
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KXAS News Script-Probe of NAACP in Dallas Continues A news script and corresponding video from the KXAS news station on September 14, 1956, show lawyers from the state attorney general’s office searching through records at the Dallas NAACP offices. Attorney General John Ben Sheppard acquired a temporary injunction against the organization while he launched an investigation on the terms of tax fraud and barratry. A corresponding court case was brought to Judge Otis T. Dunangan the following month.