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From 1985 to 2009, the overall number of delinquent crimes committed by juvenile girls increased by 86% while it increased by only 17% of juvenile boys in the U.S. [6] A 2015 report by the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality and the Human Rights Project for Girls provided statistics on the number of girls entering the juvenile ...
[177] [178] The movement began with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media platform Twitter after frustration over George Zimmerman's acquittal in the shooting of 17-year-old African-American Trayvon Martin in 2013. [179] Garza wrote a Facebook post titled, "A Love Note to Black People" in which she said: "Our Lives Matter, Black Lives ...
The victim was the 11-year old daughter of Mexican immigrants, living in Cleveland, Texas, a "timber town" [1] of about 9,000 people in the Greater Houston metropolitan area and Liberty County. Her father was a former construction worker , unemployed at the time for a year and a half because of a back injury, while her mother was working making ...
Henry E. Doyle: [12] First African American male to serve as an appellate judge in Texas (1978) [29] Albert Armendariz, Sr. (1950): [30] [31] First Hispanic American male appointed as a Judge of the Texas Court of Appeals (1986) Louis Sturns: [32] First African American male appointed as a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (1990)
The Orange County Girls court started in 2009. It focuses teenage girls in long-term foster care, with preliminary studies suggesting better grades and fewer placements. [1] The Alameda County Girls Court handles young women who have been recruited as child prostitutes or are considered at risk for involvement. It was founded in 2011 and carved ...
McKinney, Texas, United States: Also known as: McKinney Pool Party: Cause: Eric Casebolt, a McKinney police officer, was video-recorded violently restraining an unarmed 15-year-old African-American girl at a pool party. Filmed by: Brandon Brooks: Outcome: Grand jury declined to indict officer involved in incident
Texas African American History Memorial; Texas Association of Women's Clubs; Texas Colored League; Texas Freeman; 2015 Texas pool party incident; Lynching of Jesse Thomas; Tulia, Texas drug arrest scandal; Killing of Pamela Turner
The McDonogh Three is a nickname for three African American students who desegregated McDonogh 19 Elementary School, in New Orleans on November 14, 1960. [1] Even though school segregation had been illegal since the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, no states in the American Deep South had taken action to integrate their schools. [2]