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District considering sites for performing arts center
District considering sites for performing arts center
Central Texas School Of Performing Arts/Eboni Foxx #1
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Audie Murphy: War Hero and Movie Star (Stars of Texas Series) $10.00 Audie Murphy was the most decorated soldier during World War II. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest military award for bravery given to any individual who risks their life above and beyond the call of duty. Audie Murphy’s life was shaped by three things: the Great Depression of the 1930s, World War II of the 1940s, and a Hollywood career which began in the early 1950s and co… |
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Desegregating Texas Schools: Eisenhower, Shivers, and the Crisis at Mansfield High $22.50 In the famous Brown v. the Board of Education decisions of 1954 and 1955, the United States Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” schools for black and white students were unconstitutional. Yet history records that it took more than a decade of legal battles, civil rights protests, and, tragically, violent confrontations before black students gained full access to previously white schools…. |
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Talent Knows No Color: The History of an Arts Magnet High School (PB) (Research in Curriculum and Instruction) $45.53 In the summer of 1970, the members of the New Orleans Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals understood clearly the realities of race in the South. Houston, Texas, like other Southern cities, had made haste toward racial school desegregation as slowly as the White Southern Federal courts would allow. When the High School of Performing and Visual Arts opened its doors in Houston a year later, a new superin… |