Dallas Forgot
This goal of our project is to explore, chronicle and reclaim the history of Dallas’ Black schools. Stories are reported through a partnership of Dallas Free Press and the Imagining Freedom Institute, with support from Press On’s Southern Movement Media Fund. If you or a family member attended any of Dallas’ early Black schools, we want to hear from you and include your voices in this project. Contact us at history@dallasfreepress.com.
More from this project
The site of Dallas’ original Black high school, erased from history, will become a taxpayer-subsidized Kroger project
Kroger is set to build a new grocery store and apartments on “expensive," “desirable” land where one of Dallas’ oldest Black schools, B.F. Darrell, was built as the original Colored High School.
A town, a cemetery and a school: Dallas’ history of erasure repeats itself
Dallas decimated its largest Freedman’s Town and obscured both a cemetery and a school, B.F. Darrell, vital to the community.
