page_title: Brenda Cherry
section_title: Bobby Yates
hierarchical_section_title: Brenda Cherry / Activism / Bobby Yates
caption_attribution_description: English: Brenda Cherry along with Jim Blackwell on the Robert Ashley Show on KHVN.
context_page_description: Brenda Cherry, is an American Civil Rights Activist from Paris, Texas.
  Cherry is the President and co-founder of Concerned Citizens for Racial Equality, a non-profit civil rights organization located in Paris, Texas. Founded in 2003, CCFRE co-sponsored events with the U.S. Department of Justice, Lone Star Legal Aid, and the American Civil Liberties Union.
context_section_description: Bobby Yates was a 51-year-old African American man in Paris, Texas. Yates was paralyzed from the waist down due to a gunshot wound during a hunting accident approximately 20 years earlier. His lower body was removed from his hips down due to an infection. On a late night in 2008, Yates made a 911 call to the local police stating that he had been beaten by a 16-year-old white female and two adult males who were at his home that refused to leave. When the police came, the female claimed that Yates had sexually assaulted her. The two males were with her the entire time. The police sided with the female, and Yates was later arrested and charged with sexual assault. Cherry along with her organization held protests and filed complaints on Yates' behalf. After 3 years of legal action, the sexual assault charge was dismissed.
caption: Brenda Cherry along with Jim Blackwell on the Robert Ashley Show on KHVN
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