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Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Austin, Texas, [2] that advocates for voting rights, racial justice, economic justice, and criminal justice reform. [3] It was formed in 1990 by attorney James C. Harrington.
The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (University of California Press, 1997). Glasrud, Bruce A. and Merline Pitre. Black Women in Texas History (2008) Glasrud, Bruce A. et al eds. African Americans in Central Texas History From Slavery to Civil Rights (2019); scholarly essays online
In 1972, Barbara Jordan, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, was elected to the Texas Senate as the first African American since the Reconstruction Era. [9] Due to historic segregation, Jordan was unable to attend the University of Texas at Austin . [ 10 ]
Through organizations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), African Americans continued to work to regain their ability to exercise their civil and voting rights as citizens. The civil rights movement led to the U.S. Congress and President Lyndon Johnson (Texas Democrat) passing the Civil Rights Act of ...
Racial desegregation of the Houston Independent School District (HISD), resulting from the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s, [86] occurred in the 1970s. [87] Yates High School began to lose upper and middle class students due to flight to the suburbs, [ 86 ] and the establishment of magnet schools in HISD. [ 88 ]
The Rev. William “Bill” Lawson, a longtime pastor and civil rights leader who helped desegregate Houston and worked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, has died.
But the major disenfranchisement continued until passage in the mid-1960s of civil rights legislation, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to provide for federal oversight in areas in which historically minorities did not vote in expected numbers based on population.
The Texas Civil War Museum, meant as a nonpolitical exhibit on the South’s failed rebellion but inevitably tainted as a whitewashed attraction that overlooked Black history and the horror of ...