Remembering Black Dallas is an effort to preserve, present, and promote the footprint of Black life throughout Dallas' dark history of racism and racial segregation and through the communities crafted by former slaves and their descendants.
– The home of Dallas’ founder sits in the center of the city, but the home of Juanita Craft – the godmother of Dallas’ Black leadership of the 20th century – stands as a monument of remembrance to the city’s story as well.
Remembering Black Dallas is an effort to preserve, present, and promote the footprint of Black life throughout Dallas’ dark history of racism and racial segregation and through the communities crafted by former slaves and their descendants. The view of the City’s skyline from the south today overlooks “The Bottom,” part of Dallas’ Tenth Street district – one of Dallas’ original “Freedman’s Town” – still with houses, a school, and churces that exist today.
In Northeast Dallas, the only remnant left of the freedman community built over 140 years ago is the cemetery that bears the name of freed slaves and their descendants.
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