Dallas ISD school named for county’s first Black judge is progress, but not the destination | Opinion
Louis Arthur Bedford, IV, pictured in this collage as a child with his grandfather, Louis Arthur Bedford, Jr., the first Black judge in Dallas, writes about lessons learned from his "Grandpap" as Dallas ISD moves to rename a school in his honor.Growing up, I knew I was the grandson of the first Black judge of Dallas County, the grandson of a man who worked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
But now, with the soon-to-be renamed Judge Louis A. Bedford Jr. Law Academy, I feel proud, humbled and honored. I also know that the time to be blissfully unaware is over, and that many of today’s youth will share the same glass-shattering realizations that I once had. We must now confront the issues of our past in our present and future.
I looked up when I heard Grandpap say Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, a defining 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case on segregation, brought terrible effects for our community.
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