Our family understands this history because our grandfather, the Supt. of schools in Round Rock, Texas was forced to resign or be fired in 1957 because he proposed the integration of the schools. He refused to resign, was fired. There were death threats, the loved family cat was hung from a front yard tree lynch style. The NEA sent attorneys and won the case to have his contract paid by the Round Rock schools for lack of valid reason of termination. It was another 10 years before students were …