Honoring The Confederacy At The Courthouse, Searching Black Drivers Twice As Often

A new white paper documents 42 Texas counties with Confederate monuments, and what Black residents face in the courthouses behind them.

Have you ever read Texas’ Declaration of Secession? It’s the document the Texas government wrote on February 2, 1861, declaring why it wanted to join the Confederate States of America. In that declaration, it said this:

She [Texas] was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery--the servitude of…