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James DeAnda sculpture to be unveiled

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Thu, 11/11/2010 - 11:31am

Event: The University of Texas School of Law will host a sculpture unveiling to celebrate the life of the late Honorable James DeAnda, a pioneering lawyer, social activist and federal judge whose career included successfully fighting the segregation of Mexican American children in Texas schools.

The celebration for DeAnda, one of the university's and law school's [...]



 

Charges Of 'Re-Segregation' At N.C. High School

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Thu, 03/11/2010 - 11:10pm

A high school in Wayne County, N.C., has a student population that is poor and 99 percent black. That's not the case at other public high schools in the same county.

The disparity has prompted a civil rights inquiry — and complaints about what one leader calls "re-segregation."

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