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In 1995, the city of Dallas elected its first black mayor Ron Kirk. He held office from 1995 to 2002. In 2019, Dallas elected its second black mayor, Eric Johnson. Dallas' Black Chamber of commerce was established in 1926 and is the oldest in the United States. [19] Fort Worth and some surrounding cities also have a black chamber of commerce.
George Washington Jr.: [91] First African American male to serve as an Assistant District Attorney in Dallas County, Texas; Felix Hilario Garcia: [92] First Mexican (male) citizen to graduate from the Southern Methodist University (1931) [Dallas County, Texas] Louis A. Bedford Jr. (1951): [93] First African American male judge in Dallas County ...
The International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) is a non-profit organization that presents, preserves, and promotes dance by people of African-American and/or African ancestry or origin. IABD hosts an annual conference that attracts dancers, choreographers, dance scholars, dance studio owners, agents and managers, grantmakers, dance ...
St. Paul's Hospital was the first white hospital in Dallas to allow Black doctors hospital privileges and staff membership. [2] Conrad became the first Black surgeon on the staff of St. Paul's Hospital in 1956, and would later become the hospital's Chief of Staff. [1] In addition to his career as a medical doctor, Conrad served as an ...
The Juanita Jewel Craft Recreation Center and a Dallas city park were named in her honor as was a U.S. Post Office in southeast Dallas. Craft home on Warren Avenue in South Dallas is now the Juanita J. Craft Civil Rights House and is part of Dallas's Wheatley Place Historic District. Climbing the wooden steps of its front porch were many ...
Snowfall director Damian Marcano wanted to show another side of strippers-turned-assassins Black Diamond and Dallas, so he explored them through motherhood. The end result was an awkward-but ...
A large majority of Black Texans live in the Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio and Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan areas. [6] The 2020 U.S. Census identified the Black population alone, non-Hispanic population at 3,444,712, [1] making Texas' Black population the largest of all states and territories in the United States. [7]
Brooks' death was pictured in a lynching postcard. Allen Brooks was a black American man who was lynched by a mob on March 3, 1910, in Dallas, Texas.Brooks had been accused of raping a young white girl, and on the day he was set to face trial at the Dallas County Courthouse, a large mob pulled him by rope out of a second-story window at the courthouse, dragged him to Elks Arch, and hanged him ...