Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Early Settlements and First African American Families of Dallas
Map of Early Black Dallas Communities
Part I: Early Settlements
Booker T. Washington Addition
Eagle Ford
The Fields Community
The Thomas Hill Community
Mill City
North Dallas: Freedman’s Town/Stringtown/Deep Ellum
Oak Cliff
The Prairie (The Prey-Ah)
South Dallas
Upper and Lower White Rock
West Dallas Community
Part II: Schools
Schools for African American Children in Dallas: 1875–1940
Part III: First Families
James H. and Mamie B. Abernathy Family
John and Anna Anderson
Jasper Sr. and Edna Nixon Baccus
Anderson and Eliza Bonner Family
Frederick Douglass Bookman
Tobe Bosh and May Elder Wilkerson Bosh
Abraham and Udora Brewer Family
James and Ellen Brown
John and Reathy Brown
T. C. and Hannah Clayton
Elija and Charity Davis Family
William and Sarah Jones Davis
Dr. William Knox Flowers Sr. Family
J. S. Giddings Family
Charles Randle Graggs Family
Jeff and Hannah Hill
John E. Jr. and Ruby G. Hill
Tom Hill Sr. and Nicy Foster Hill; Ben F. Scott and Annie Hill Scott Families
Earline Goins Hoover
Samuel W. and Emmie Mae Hudson Sr.
Dr. Arrie E. Hughes Sr. Family
Andrew and Tempie Jackson
William Jackson Family
D. Edwin and Ila Walker Johnson
Charles Etta Emory Jones Family
Henry Keller Sr. Family
Ben King Family
Marion and Servilla Dawson Lee
Claude Sr. and Julia Carter McCain Family
John Wesley McKinney
Dr. Walter Ree McMillan Family
Mrs. Annie Washington Mitchell Family
Robert Thomas Moore
Isaac Barton and Chavis Lee Partee Families
Minnie K. Tamplin Patton
Henry and Mary Moore and Noah and Ida Penn Families
Simon Miles Pentecost
Dr. and Mrs. L. G. Pinkston Sr.
Arthur Prestwood Sr.
Sylvester Walter and Ladora Kennedy Smith Price Family
Moran and Mattie Bell Johnson Ritchie
D. Rowen Family
Allen C. and Beulah Smart Family
Paul and Sallie Smith
Charles M. and Lula E. Moore Swann Family
Taylor Anderson and Mary Jane Coit Tarpley Family
Finis Sr. and Legurtha McCain Tatum Family
Yorktown Thomas Family
John J. and Lurena Alzira Tyiska Thompson
Ned and Elizabeth Miller Welch
George and Phyllis Jackson Wells Family
William Wilkerson Family
Charley and Charlotte Wesley Young
Other First Families
Part IV: Oral History Transcripts
Marzelle Cooper Hill
Dr. Frank Jordan
Dr. Lucille Williams Lane
Thomas Tolbert
Alvernon King Tripp
In Closing
Index