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Three young Black girls were strangled and left in a pond last summer in east Texas, and no arrests have been made in a case that advocates and experts believe has been severely mishandled by ...
A Texas school district is investigating claims that some of its students yelled racial slurs at volleyball players during a recent game against another school.
In 1954, a related case that dealt with racial discrimination in a school setting, Brown v. Board of Education , stated that any segregation in the public school system was unconstitutional. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbade discrimination based on race, sex, religion, and national origin. [ 2 ]
The court's decision was argued on the standpoint of the Mendez et al. v. Westminster et al. court case and lack of Texas law for segregation of those of Mexican descent, and also stated that Mexican-Americans were separate from African-Americans as had been ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson.
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, 551 U.S. 701 (2007), also known as the PICS case, is a United States Supreme Court case which found it unconstitutional for a school district to use race as a factor in assigning students to schools in order to bring its racial composition in line with the composition of the district as a whole, unless it was remedying a ...
A new report has found that Texas, Wyoming and Mississippi have made the most progress in achieving racial equality since the Civil Rights Movement, while the District of Columbia, Iowa and ...
Staff at a child migrant camp at the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, Texas, spoke to the BBC about conditions there. Leaked video shows Texas child migrant camp, where staff allege kids are ...
The Leesburg Stockade was an event in the civil rights movement in which a group of African-American teenage and pre-teen girls were arrested for protesting racial segregation in Americus, Georgia, and were imprisoned without charges for 60 days in poor conditions in the Lee County Public Works building, in Leesburg, Georgia.