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PARIS, Texas - The public fairgrounds in this small town east of Texas seem ordinary enough, like so many other places sdriciti proud of the county through the nation. Unless you know the history of the place. There are no plates or indicators to denote, but several of the most renowned public lynchings of blacks Americans in the late 19th and early 20th century were held at fairgrounds in Paris, where thousands of white spectators will gather to watch and encourage while men of color have been dragged on un'impalcatura, scalded with hot irons and finally burned to death or hung. The cherry Brenda, a local activist for civil rights, can see the fairgrounds dall'iarda front of his modest house in the heart of the "black" side of this city of 26,000 disk segregated. And lately, the cherry says, she 's started to wonder whether the ****** legacy of those lynchings is Bouncing in a place that is called "the best town in Texas." "Some of the things that happen here if we were not accadrebbero to Dallas or Houston," The Cherry said. "is because we are in this city closed. Compared to the 1930s. " There was a white man aged 19, was convicted last July of murder criminal negligence for killing a black woman of 54 years and his nephew of 3 years with his truck, who was sentenced in Paris to the test and was required to submit an annual Christmas card to victims' families. There are more severely the "public school" in Paris, which are considered by the Department of Education in the United States after repeated complaints that coordinators governing more blacks frequently students, and that white students. And then there is the case that most of the difficulties cherry and head of the Texas NAACP, which form part of a black freshman 14 years, cotton Shaquanda, who has pushed a hall monitor at Paris High School in a dispute over entering the construction of the first school day had officially begun. The youth has not been arrested earlier remark and monitor the corridor - 58 years teacher 's aide - was not seriously damaged. But Shaquanda was tried in March 2006 in the town 's juvenile court, convicted of "assault on a servant" government, and ruled by the spindle Superville of the court of Lamar County to prison for up to 7 years, until it turns 21 . Just three months earlier, Superville has sentenced a white girl of 14 years, convicted of arson for burning down his family 's home, to the test. "All the Shaquanda did was grab somebody and be imprisoned for 5 or 6 years? "said Gary Bledsoe, an Austin lawyer who is president of the NAACP branch of the condition. "It 's as they are sending a signal to the black people in Paris who stay in your place in this community, in the shadows, intimidated." The forum generally does not identify criminal suspects younger age 17, but is acting in this manner in this case because the girl and her family have chosen to go public with their story. No officials involved in Shaquanda 's the matter, including the local prosecutor, judge and the coordinators of the schools of Paris, you speak for their handling of it, citante an appeal court in progress. But the teen 's protections to argue that long before the event Pusher of September 2005, officials of School of Paris Shaquanda designated for scrutiny because her mother had frequently accused school officials of racism. The retaliation has put forward "Shaquanda started to get prepared a lot after that his mother was involved in the protest march in front of a school," said Sharon Reynerson, a lawyer with the Legal Assistance of the star itself, which has represented Shaquanda during challenges number of disciplinary citations she received. "Some of the items weren 't fair to her or accurate, so we considered as we challenge each had to get the whole story." Among the items Shaquanda received, according to Reynerson, were summonses to bring an outside panel that was an inch too short, too much paint sides in a cup during class art and deturpanti a desk that will tell the forum later allowed officials no signs of damage. Shaquanda 's mother, Creola cotton, not dispute that her daughter can behave impulsive and was sometimes guilty of a lack of readiness or talk turned to the school - behavior that he said were manifestations of Shaquanda' Disorder hyperactivity of attention deficit of s, where the teenager was taking the prescription drug. Neither Shaquanda herself deny that pushed the monitor of the corridor after the teacher 's the adjutant refused her permission to enter the school before the morning bell - although Shaquanda conduct that was supposed to be allowed to visit the nurse the school to take his medication and that the teacher 's the adjutant drove his first. But Cherry alleges that Shaquanda 'frequent articles and disciplinary s insistence of officials to his trial that he deserved prison rather than testing for the event Pusher, measures of school in a larger pattern of systematic distinction against blacks students in the independence school sector in Paris. During the five years, parents blacks have filed at least a dozen complaints of distinctions against schools with the federal Department of Education, asserente that their children, who constitute 40 per cent of the district 's nearly 4000 students, is was chosen for excessive discipline. A lawyer for the school, Dennis Eichelbaum, said that the Department of Education had given all complaints to be unfounded. "[Department] has explained that the school has not and does not discriminate, that the education sector has been a leader and a very progressive when it comes to race relations and that there was validity to the allegations made by plaintiffs," Eichelbaum has said. Not so clear But the federal investigations on the education sector are not well defined and are not finished. In a 2004 located, officials of the Department of Education has determined that blacks students at a secondary school in Paris were preparandi twice for disciplinary offenses more often than most white students - and eight times as often in a category, " ; Class disruption. " The Department of Education has asked the Department of Justice of the United States to try to mediate disputes between parents and the district blacks, but school officials have extracted Treaty in December last year before it was completed. And in April 2006, the Department of Education informed school officials in Paris that he was opening a new, comprehensive review to determine "if the district has discriminated against students of African-American on the basis of race" between 2004 and 2006. The federal officials say that research is still in progress. According to a teacher in Paris veteran, who asked not be named for fear of retribution, that distinction is widespread. "There is a philosophy of giving white kids a break and get off on blacks kids," said the teacher, who is white. Not everything in Paris agrees, however, that the black are treated unfair by the city 's Institutions "I 'the VE has lived here all my life and I don' t see that," said Mary Ann to slat Fisher, one of two blacks members of the Council of the City of Paris. "My kids went to the High School of Paris and have not ever had a minute of a problem with the school system, courts or police." An internal particular Meanwhile, Shaquanda, a beginner offender, remains something of an anomaly within the prison system's Youth Commission of Texas, where officials say 95 per cent of 2500 young people in their custody are chronic and serious offender who already have exhausted the county-level program as the test and treatment or detention room. "The Youth Commission of Texas is reserved for those youth who are the most violent or most usual," Tim Savoy said the spokesman of the committee. "The whole concept of commitment until your twenty-first birthday should be recognized as a severe punishment and that 's why it' s usually the last resort of youth in Texas." Inside the youth prison in Brownwood where incarcerated for the past 10 months - a prison currently at the center of a scandal that is part protection that alleged he sexually abused the interior adolescents - Shaquanda, who is now 15, says it is not doing well. Three times he tried to work hard in the first place grazing his face, then cutting his arm. The last time, he said, has copied a method that has seen another young Internal try, knotting a sweater around his neck and pushing so strongly she couldn 't breathe. Guards have noticed that she was sitting inside his broken cell before it was too late. He tried to harm us, Shaquanda said, by depression, despair and fear of young thieves, robbers, attackers sexual offenders and honor of speaking hardened around her who must try to avoid every day. "I get paranoid when I get around some of these girls," Shaquanda said. "Sometimes I feel like I just can 't not do this no more - that I can' t survive to this."