The Mansfield News-Mirror "Negro Students Enroll for Fall Term Here"

Title: The Mansfield News-Mirror "Negro Students Enroll for Fall Term Here"
Description: Threatened with the loss of federal funding the Mansfield school board announced the district would integrate in the Fall of 1965. Approxmently 40 African American students enrolled for Fall classes as juniors and seniors. Mansfield School District also integrated still was for the most part segregated. The district claimed full enrollment of K-12 would overwhelm the district especially the elementary school. Therefore, the district offered two solutions: 1) build a new school but cannot afford it until 1966 so that would postpone full integration for another year. Or 2) reduce zoning districts and allow white students in the area of the colored elementary school to attend therefore integrating the colored school. Both were rejected by the federal government leaving the district to fully integrate.
Subject: Mansfield News-Mirror article about African American students enrolling for classes at Mansfield High School for the 1966-1967 school year.
Source: Mansfield News-Mirror
Date: 1965-05-27

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