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L. Clifford Davis, civil rights attorney who fought to desegregate North Texas schools, has died at 100 years old
L. Clifford Davis, a civil rights attorney who fought to desegregate North Texas schools, has died at 100 years old, his family confirmed to WFAA. Davis was born on Oct. 12, 1924 and never ...
Texas Monthly28d
Remembering L. Clifford Davis, Who Fought to Desegregate Texas Schools
Clifford Davis, a young lawyer representing ... majority of Texas school districts had not yet begun the process. Many, including Mansfield, would hold out until the 1964 Civil Rights Act required ...
Dallas Morning News27d
Civil rights activist Judge Clifford Davis, who fought to desegregate North Texas schools, dies
in 1924, Davis took inspiration from civil rights attorney Scipio Jones and decided ... Davis continued to push for desegregation in Texas, litigating the cases that resulted in the desegregation ...
USA Today7d
More than 60 Texas workers laid off in U.S. Department of Education mass layoffs: records
More than 60 Texas-based U.S. Education Department ... pushed to dismantle — terminated at least 25 attorneys in Texas specializing in civil rights. It also shuttered its Dallas office, laying ...