Austin Comp Planning: A Brief History

Moving forward sometimes requires looking back

"...City Plan Commission in 1928, most infamously institutionalized racial segregation. It recommended a plan to move "the negro population"..."

Feb. 5, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Peace Through Pie

A sweet honoring of Martin Luther King

"...and others who participated in his nonviolent crusade against segregation anyway, including Myrlie Evers-Williams, asking each of them to..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Food Feature by Toni Tipton-Martin

The Secret Life of Bees

Despite the sincere coming-of-age story at the heart of this movie rife with singers-turned-actresses, there's no denying the pleasures found in the film's soulful matriarchy.

"...of the newly signed Civil Rights Act, which banned segregation and ensured the universal right to vote, The Secret..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Great Debaters

Denzel Washington directs and stars in this inspirational but predictable drama set in the Jim Crow South of the Thirties.

"...striking detail. It is a time and place where segregation is the norm, and lynchings still occur, although the..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austinites Mobilize in Support of the Jena 6

Local march part of one of largest civil rights demonstrations in recent history

"...a feeling of déjà vu, resurrecting the ghosts of segregation, racial violence, and Jim Crow-era justice. It began when..."

Sept. 28, 2007 News Feature by Justin Ward

Juke Joint Blues

Blues Boy Hubbard strolls down Eastside Austin's Chitlin' Circuit memory lane

"...During segregation, music venues known as juke joints, jook houses, or..."

July 13, 2007 Music Feature by Jonny Meyers

Integrating the 40 Acres: The 50-Year Struggle for Racial Equality at the University of Texas; The Texas Book: Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University

Cen-Texts

"...Brown v. Board of Education decisions, the defenders of segregation in those days left a legacy that today sees..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Books Review by Lee Nichols

Who We Are

The 'Chronicle' interviews Howard Zinn on war, peace, and human nature

"...were looking at their own situation and the racial segregation of the armed forces. In Vietnam, this became most..."

Feb. 10, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch

A Place at the Long Table

The complex, nuanced, unmistakable taste of Juneteenth, 139 years later

"...deeply rooted tradition, the rigors of sharecropping, Jim Crow segregation, lynching, social and civil unfairness by angry white Americans..."

June 17, 2005 Food Feature by Toni Tipton-Martin

Change Ain't Easy

County reluctant to rename courthouse

"...for Brown v. Board of Education, the definitive U.S. school-desegregation case. The next largest amount of public support was..."

June 10, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

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March 11, 2005 Column

Ray

Ray Charles, we can't stop loving you, even though this formulaic biopic lacks your original style.

"...the difficulties of a black artist finding success in segregation-era America, Ray is also enlightening. No matter the movie’s..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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"...is not "threatening people's jobs," it seems that anti-slavery, anti-segregation, and anti-apartheid efforts would be disqualified (as an aside,..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Column

Life Begins at Conception and Must Be Protected

"...is not "threatening people's jobs," it seems that anti-slavery, anti-segregation, and anti-apartheid efforts would be disqualified (as an aside,..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Postmarks

Page Two

Despite the Supreme Court's recent decision, affirmative action is alive and well -- for the dominating elite.

"...slavery and more than a hundred years of (continuing) segregation for African-Americans, as well as second-class status accompanied by..."

June 27, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Changing Places

The new Pickle Elementary School is a crucible of the changing St. Johns neighborhood

"...its problems grew. After the civil rights movement and desegregation, bussing spread the neighborhood children across town. As a..."

Feb. 7, 2003 News Feature by Michael May

Naked City

Beyond City Limits

"...Dixiecrat presidential bid, which had a single principle -- segregation now and segregation forever -- Lott remarked, "I want..."

Dec. 13, 2002 News Feature

Capitol Chronicle

Despite John Cornyn's jokes and the end of the Ruiz suit, Texas prisons still need reform.

"...In particular, Justice pointed to the abuse of administrative segregation (i.e., solitary confinement) particularly against mentally ill prisoners, institutional..."

June 21, 2002 News Column by Michael King

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"...Hightower's Segregation..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Column

Ten Down ... 90% to Go

AISD votes to move the Liberal Arts Academy from Johnston to LBJ, a move that magnet parents support but many others question.

"...the mid-1980s, in part to comply non-coercively with federal desegregation laws. The idea was to attract white students to..."

Dec. 7, 2001 News Feature by Michael May

Bygone Buildings

Right in the booming heart of Austin, folks can still find evidence of times past. Devin Greaney explores some of Austin's abandoned haunts.

"...the area had become a mostly African-American community (official segregation in Austin wasn't instituted until 1926). In 1877, Samuel..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Devin Greaney

Sterling Lands' New Mission

Sterling Lands II and the Eastside Social Action Coalition fight for equity in Austin's public schools.

"...landmark 1954 federal court case that ended official school segregation], our schools are still separate and still unequal." The..."

Jan. 12, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Hottest Race in Texas

The David Fisher-Todd Staples Senate Contest in East Texas Will Decide the Fate of the State Senate -- and the U.S. House

"...place, where it's barely been a generation since official segregation ended, and unofficial segregation -- and the deep-seated, institutionalized..."

Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Michael King

Under One Roof

Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?

"...out of town, which in turn exacerbates road congestion, segregation, and a host of other ills...."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Suburban Blight

Austinites' Escape to the 'Burbs Backfires

"...much you can do with Bowman Drive. If racial segregation created inner-city ghettos, does it not stand to reason..."

March 27, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Doomed to Repeat It?

Former Students, Profs, and Lawyers Remember

"..."separate but equal" doctrine was in effect, meaning that segregation was legal, as long as there was an equal..."

Feb. 6, 1998 News Feature by Cristina Smith

The Music of Our Sins -- Part II Letters at 3am

"...airwaves. Officially in the South (unofficially everywhere else) racial segregation was rigidly, violently enforced. Martin Luther King, Jr. was..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Independent Yet Empathic

Jazz Legend Ornette Coleman

"...his initial position less than ideal. Poverty, racism, and segregation were rampant, and not only was music his calling,..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Music Feature by Jeff Mccord

Austin Blocked Apartments by Houses for Years. New Rules Would Change That.

Code change would facilitate 60,000+ new units, city staff estimates

"...as an exclusionary tool that perpetuates existing patterns of segregation, reducing housing choice within High Opportunity areas by limiting..."

April 19, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Opinion: Incarcerated Women in Texas Need to Be Heard

A writer in her eighth year of solitary confinement laments widespread neglect of the experiences of women in prison

"...time family members said their loved ones remain in segregation. Guess who wasn’t included? Women in solitary. Even the..."

March 29, 2024 Column by Kwaneta Harris

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