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What is Black History?
“Black history is the individual and collective memory and evidence of places, events, contributions, actions, struggles, and successes central to the Black experience, Black people, Black culture, Black institutions, and Black community throughout time.” Black history is made every day. Black history is U.S. history!
— Jasmine Ward PhD (My Mom)
Black history is all around us.
My parents drive us across the country every year to see important Black history sites.
For this project we drove less than a hour to see important Black history sites in DFW!
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My Research Activities
I decided to research local Black history because it is something I’ve always thought about (before the pandemic) and we don’t learn about local Black History during school. To complete the research I searched the internet, called friends of my parents that know a lot about the DFW area, and I visited the sites to learn more about Black history around me. I collected the websites on Google Sheets, took notes on my phone and computer, and asked my parents to drive to the locations so that I could take my own photos whenever possible. (Some things have been destroyed or changed.)
Online
research
I searched for information about Black history. I saved the items in Google Sheets.
Stories To Understand
I read and listened to stories about why these places were important.
DFW
map
I used Google Sheets to collect info. I used Gooaps to find the locations.
1900-1909
1905 Dr. Benjamin R. Bluitt started the first hospital made for African Americans in Dallas.
First Federated Women's Club founded in 1908 in DFW.
1909 Dr. Ollie Bryan, the first Negro woman to practice dentistry in Dallas, opens her office at 115 Boll Street.
1910-1919
May 1910 The Colored High School in FWISD.
In June 1911, J.A. Gilmore refuses to give up his seat in the whites-only compartment of a streetcar.
1912 William McDonald founded the city’s first African-American bank, the Fraternal Bank and Trust Company
1919 The Ft. Worth Federated Women’s Club founded.
1919 The Texas Colored Baseball Association is organized with teams in Beaumont, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, and Wichita Falls. Teams are later added in Shreveport, Galveston, and Mineral Wells.
1920-1929
America’s foremost Negro architect, Thad Else, opens the first local hotel in Freedman’s Town at 2115 Routh St. to be designed and built for Negroes by Negroes.
1927: Kindergarten for African American children opened in one of milk stations The station is headed by African American nurses and doctors.
1929 Powell Hotel Black Hotel in Dallas.
1927: Kindergarten for African American children opened in one of milk stations The station is headed by African American nurses and doctors.
1929 Powell Hotel Black Hotel in Dallas.
1930-1939
1930 Booker T. Washington High School was the only high school for black students in Dallas.
1937 Ollie McMillan became the first black nurse at Parkland Hospital.
1940-1949
1944 Juanita Craft becomes the first black woman to vote in Dallas County.
1945 Star Theatre which was the only movie house for Black customers in Oak Cliff.
1950-1959
Aug 30, 1956, Mansfield school board approved a plan to admit 12 Black students to all-white Mansfield High School. Many local white residents opposed integration.
September 2, 1956, 209 North Judkins street, Lloyd Austin and his family moved into a all white neighborhood, which caused a racial strife.
1960-1969
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was invited to speak in Dallas.
1963 FWISD desegregated.1965 AISD desegregated.
1965 MISD desegregated.
March 17, 1966, Dr. King gave his 2nd speech in Dallas at SMU.
1967 DISD desegregated.
1970-1979
In 1970, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram became the first big-city newspaper in Texas to hire a black reporter.
April of 1977 The Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society was founded.
1980-1989
June 1, 1988, Dr. Marvin Edwards, becomes the new superintendent of DISD.
November 1, 1986, Richard S. Knight Jr. was made city manager by the Dallas City Council.
August 2, 1984, John Wiley Price was elected to the Dallas County Commissioner’s Court from District 3.
1990-1999
1995, Ron Kirk was elected as Dallas’s first Black Mayor.
1997, Elzie Odom ran for
mayor of Arlington, winning 50.19% of votes as turnout reached a 10-year high.
Map of DFW Locations Important Black History
Works Cited
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc307692/
- https://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Amerstud/blackhistoryatkenyon/Individual%20Pages/History%20of%20Black%20Education.htm
- https://www.every.org/Tarrant-County-Black-Historical-and-Genealogical-Society?gclid=Cj0KCQiA88X_BRDUARIsACVMYD9aoUZtDU-US7Ywag6ERkGcp61pSNbwahiGOI3Fw8PQt4muuXxS110aAsQHEALw_wcB
- https://www.tarrantcountyblackhistory.org/
- https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/arlington/article68837362.html#:~:text=Floyd%20Moody%20still%20vividly%20recalls,to%20integrate%20Mansfield%20High%20School.
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/
- https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-month
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_African_Americans_in_Dallas%E2%80%93Fort_Worth
- https://my.10web.io/websites
- https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/once-the-only-burial-ground-for-african-americans-in-arlington-to-be-restored/9408/
- https://openplaques.org/plaques/29921
- https://www.federatedwomenfw.org/page/page/9045114.htm
- https://fwtx.com/culture/ways-to-celebrate-black-history-month-in-fort-worth/
- https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/fort-worth-texas-where-west-and-south-meet-brief-history-citys-african-american-communi/
- https://aamdallas.org/
- https://dallascityhall.com/departments/sustainabledevelopment/historicpreservation/Pages/tenth_street.aspx
- https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/Details/5507016313
- https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/history/curious-about-the-landmarks-that-surround-us-take-a-self-guided-tour-of-fort-worths-african-american-history/287-f2ce5e46-d002-4d32-b961-07d36db5e00d
- https://learn.kera.org/texas-hbcu-map/#:~:text=Paul%20Quinn%20College%20is%20the,Marshall%2C%20which%20opened%20in%201873
- https://pqc-edu.squarespace.com/
- https://texaslakestrail.com/plan-your-adventure/historic-sites-and-cities/sites/freedmans-cemetery-memorial
- https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/22966/dallas-fort-worth/population
- http://humanrightsdallasmaps.com/items/show/3
- https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/mansfield-texas-school-desegregation-incident-1955-1965/
- https://www.keranews.org/archive/2001-09-07/integration-still-a-challenge-in-fort-worth
- https://cityofdallaspreservation.wordpress.com/tag/black-history-in-dallas/
- https://cityofdallaspreservation.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-speaks-at-dallas-fair-park-music-hall-in-1963/
- https://cityofdallaspreservation.wordpress.com/tag/black-history-in-dallas/
- https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/fort-worth-texas-where-west-and-south-meet-brief-history-citys-african-american-communi/
- https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1998/june/timeline-a-concise-history/
- https://www.discoverdenton.com/listing/denton-county-african-american-museum/453/
- https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/bluitt-benjamin-rufus
Kennedy Ward
The story behind Find Black History
-I love history
-I want to learn more about my culture
-Black history is U.S. history
TEKS
(13) Social studies skills. The student applies critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid sources, including technology. The student is expected to:
(A) gather information about a topic using a variety of valid oral and visual sources such as interviews, music, pictures, symbols, and artifacts with adult assistance; and
(B) sequence and categorize information.
(14) Social studies skills. The student communicates in oral and visual forms. The student is expected to:
(A) place events in chronological order;
(B) use social studies terminology related to time and chronology correctly, including before, after, next, first, last, yesterday, today, and tomorrow;
(C) express ideas orally based on knowledge and experiences; and
(D) create and interpret visuals, including pictures and maps.
(15) Social studies skills. The student uses problem-solving and decision-making skills, working independently and with others. The student is expected to use problem-solving and decision-making processes to identify a problem, gather information, list and consider options, consider advantages and disadvantages, choose and implement a solution, and evaluate the effectiveness of the solution.