Texas Civil Rights Review

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  • Back to Basics: Texas Promises New Money To its Black State Universities

    Top Story of Fall 2001:

    Fourth Federally-Mandated Desegregation Plan Approved and Posted At Official Website

    By Greg Moses

    As it attempts to reverse a slump in higher education, the state of Texas has promised to send new money to two old schools that have the best record of educating the state’s nonwhite students.

    The Fourth Texas Plan for Desegregation of Higher Education, requested and approved by the Office of Civil Rights at the US Department of Education, promises to bring some parity to the state’s support of Prairie View University and Texas Southern University.

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  • Target 2014: Cooperative Extension Centennial

    The Cooperative Extension Services were created by Congress in 1914. This is a page for thinking out loud about the upcoming centennial.

    Civil Rights at Land Grant Colleges

    Wallenstein, Peter. “Civil Rights and the Courts: A Band of Brothers and the Siege Against Segregation in Virginia,” Virginia Social Science Journal, (1997)V.32:99 – 112.

    Focus on civil-rights litigation of the 1940s.

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  • Archive: TCRR Site Info 2001

    Note: the following information was posted as “Site Info” at the html version of the Texas Civil Rights Review.

    Site Notes

    Therefore if, within the confines of its present culture, the nation ever seeks to purge itself of its color hate, it will find itself at war with itself, convulsed by a spasm of emotional and moral confusion. If the nation ever finds itself examining its real relation to the Negro, it will find itself doing infinitely more than that, for the anti-Negro attitude of whites represents but a tiny part-though a symbolically significant one-of the moral attitude of the nation.

    –Richard Wright

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  • 34 Words, 41 Shots: A Defense of Affirmative Action

    Top Story of Spring 2001:

    A Talk by Dr. Robert Jensen

    Delivered to a panel on racial disparity in health at the annual conference of the American Public Health Association, Boston, Massachusets, November 14, 2000; and for the “Speaking Truth to Power” Series at Schreiner University, Kerrville, Texas, April 3, 2001

    I want to start with the 34 most misused words about race ever spoken in the United States:

    “I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

    Those are, of course, the famous words of Martin Luther King Jr., spoken in 1963 at the March on Washington. King used the term “dream”, but his topic was the nightmare of race and America, of life in a racialized and racist society.

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