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In Tarrant Commissioners Court, disagreement over proclamation leads to heated exchange
Commissioner Alisa Simmons wrote a proclamation declaring March National Social Work Month, but Commissioner Matt Krause ...
Dallas Morning News23d
Civil rights activist Judge Clifford Davis, who fought to desegregate North Texas schools, dies
Clifford Davis, the first Black judge elected in Tarrant County ... push for desegregation in Texas, litigating the cases that resulted in the desegregation of the Mansfield and Fort Worth ...
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L. Clifford Davis, civil rights attorney who fought to desegregate North Texas schools, has died at 100 years old
TARRANT COUNTY ... to Texas in the early 1950s. He was among the first Black lawyers in the south to take on discrimination cases. The 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram19d
‘Job is ours to continue that march.’ Civil rights icon Judge Clifford Davis’ legacy lives on
Judge Davis, the first Black district court judge to be elected in Tarrant County and a civil rights lawyer who helped desegregate North Texas schools ... council members, Mansfield Mayor Michael ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram16d
Are poker rooms legal in Texas? Westlake club remains closed after sheriff’s deputies raid
It features a restaurant, handcrafted cocktails and “professionally-dealt games of Texas Hold’em,” according to its website. A monthslong investigation by the Tarrant County Sheriff’s ...
NBC DFW29d
Fort Worth judge and civil rights activist L. Clifford Davis dead at age 100
Clifford Davis, the civil rights lawyer who fought to desegregate North Texas school districts before becoming the first Black judge in Tarrant County ... integration of Mansfield public schools.
The Boston Globe22d
L. Clifford Davis, who helped desegregate Texas schools, dies at 100
Clifford Davis, who as a civil rights lawyer in the 1950s helped integrate Texas public schools that had resisted the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ... judges in Tarrant County, Texas ...
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From courts to mentoring leaders like me, Clifford Davis made Fort Worth more just | Opinion
His lawsuits forced the desegregation of Mansfield and Fort Worth school ... he became one of the first Black district judges in Tarrant County, proving that justice belongs to all of us, not ...
New Texas’ Tarrant jail chief praised by former colleagues as jail remains under fire for deaths
DALLAS — Tarrant County’s new jail chief brings with him commendations from his previous employers and a wealth of experience in county jail operations, according to his personnel files and previous ...
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Two dead after shooting on Mansfield Highway in Forest Hill, police say
the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office, and the Texas Rangers. By 9 p.m., traffic was still blocked off and rerouted near the intersection of Mansfield Highway and Bisbee Street. Authorities have ...
Austin American-Statesman25d
Elizabeth Hurdle Marshall
Elizabeth “Betty” Hurdle Marshall passed away peacefully at home in Dripping Springs, Texas with her ... at the Fort Worth Court of Appeals in the Tarrant County Courthouse.