A thriving African American community took root on San Antonio’s West Side, especially after World War II, when many were drawn to the area by the prospect of civil service jobs.
, said his father was among them.
Then in 1969, after an airfield closed in Mobile, Alabama, Payne said the workers there were told about the job prospects at the Air Force bases at Kelly and Lackland. Then there were African American teachers like Catherine Elliott, who taught second grade at Lincoln.
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