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A source of pride : Historic school in Joppa neighborhood to become new community center
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Invitations were sent out to people in the Joppa community to form a community oversight committee for the project. At the time it was announced, Adam Bazaldua, the Dallas City Council member who represents Joppa, applauded Downwinders and Joppa resident Temeckia Derrough for helping make the project happen. Derrough is also the founder of the Joppa Freedman’s Town Association.
Now, Derrough said she feels she and another community member are being excluded from the project. “We feel our rights are being violated,” she said. She blames Downwinders, but the group says Derrough has representation on the committee.
Her relationship with the local environmental group began when she was fighting the development of a concrete batch plant in Joppa in 2018. Downwinders reached out to her to help. She said they began doing a lot of research on the community and educating them about the environment.
The Freedmen s Towns That Built DFW Black History
Free Black Americans living in North Texas after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation relied on a series of communities known as Freedmen s towns to congregate, shop, sell goods and services, and build businesses. They were crucial not just to the culture but to the very survival of Blacks in the antebellum period.
Time has paved over these towns, literally and figuratively, as highways, developments and new generations put their stamps on these landmark neighborhoods.
Dallas is in danger of losing this important history as cities and residents don t prioritize preservation, according to George Keaton Jr., CEO of Remembering Black Dallas Inc.