 Specifically, the process in which Hickman would capture the disparities between local segregated schools can be seen in the comparison between Booker T. Washington High School, a school for African-American students, and Woodrow Wilson High School, a school for white Americans.This particular example demonstrated the differences in teaching facilities of science and biology departments.On August 31, whilst documenting evidence of segregation inequalities for the NAACP, Hickman became involved in an incident in Mansfield, Texas, regarding the desegregation of the Mansfield High School in 1956, in which between 300 to 400 individuals were protesting desegregation.