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James C. Harrington is a Texas civil rights lawyer and founder of the Texas Civil Rights Project. Dedicated to social justice, he fought for workers' rights alongside Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers. Harrington had a reputation for taking on powerful adversaries, including the Texas Supreme Court and the Texas State Bar. He worked on a ...
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.
Article I (the Texas Bill of Rights), Section 13 of the Texas Constitution, adopted February 15, 1876 – Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel or unusual punishment inflicted. All courts shall be open, and every person for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person or reputation shall have remedy by ...
Columnist Margaret Whitt embarked on a civil rights tour in Alabama, visiting historical sites and new memorials by the Equal Justice Initiative.
The tour is part of the Harford Civil Rights Project, an oral history collection and mobile application created by James Karmel, history professor at Harford Community College, and students at ...
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
The UT School of Law Human Rights Clinic is among the groups petitioning the UN to intervene for LGBTQ+ rights in Texas after some laws passed in 2023
Peniel E. Joseph is an American scholar, teacher, and public voice on race issues especially the history of the Black power movement. He holds a joint professorship appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the History Department in at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin).