Racism

Abstract This collection of brief freshman student papers provides a vivid flashback of the concerns not only facing those students, but every American as the tumultuous year of 1995 was drawing to a close. Touching on everything from politics, safe sex, emerging internet technology, music, domestic terrorism and the ubiquitous O.J. Simpson double murder trial, these letters reflect the difficulty of young adults struggling not only to find their own path in life, but understand a world rocked with...

Abstract

This collection is comprised of documentation from the court case Cisneros v. Corpus Christi ISD. This case established Hispanic Americans as a minority separate from the white classification and helped undo some major systemic racism problems that still lingered a decade and a half after Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas legally ended school segregation.