Dallas+Side+Trips



Dallas Side Trips
 * Travel Recommendations for the Feminist Conference Goer: **
 * Places In and Around Dallas to Visit During Your Free Time at Midwinter 2012**toc

**Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance**
211 North Record Street, Suite 100, Dallas; [|http://www.dallasholocaustmuseum.org] Founded in 1984, the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust while emphasizing ethical responses to prejudice, hatred and indifference. The museum archives contain over 550 collections of artifacts, photographs, papers, and publications. The oral history collection includes approximately 150 testimonies of both Holocaust survivors and liberators from the North Texas area.

**[[image:4711867649_29906f5ff9_m.jpg width="120" height="90" align="left"]]First Juries to Sit Women in Dallas County**
Texas Historical Marker, North East corner, "Old Red Courthouse", 100 South Houston Street, Dallas Although the ratification of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted women the right to vote in 1920, women were not permitted to serve on juries in Texas until 1954. Efforts to add women to jury lists began soon after passage of the 19th amendment, when it became clear that the right of jury service would not be granted to women along with the right of suffrage. The amendment to the Texas Constitution requiring that women serve on grand and petit juries was finally approved by voters on November 2, 1954.

**Freedman's Memorial Park and Cemetery**
Central Expressway at Lemmon, Dallas This area of Dallas County was settled by former African American slaves shortly after the conclusion of the American Civil War. Freedman's Cemetery, a graveyard for African Americans, was established in 1869 on one acre of land purchased by trustee Sam Eakins. Another 3 acres was acquired for cemetery purposes in 1879 by trustees A. Wilhite, Frank Read, A. Boyd, T. Watson, George English, Silas Pitman, and the Rev. A. R. Griggs, a former slave who later became a prominent local church leader and champion of early public education for the African American community. The community of churches, commercial enterprises, and residences that had developed in this area by the turn of the 20th century was by 1912 a part of the City of Dallas. Construction of the Central Expressway through here in the 1930s virtually eliminated all physical above-ground reminders of the cemetery. Descendants of persons buried here and the City of Dallas agreed in 1965 to establish the Freedman's Memorial Park and Cemetery at this site. Beginning in 1989 representatives of the community worked with the City of Dallas and the Texas Department of Transportation to preserve the historic Freedman's Cemetery site prior to highway expansion.

**[[image:http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSUsuo55cP3CO_U7jEsAQ0M9_IGBQG0oxyYQo-lKrfoDrVq3o73EQ width="139" height="87" align="left"]]African American Museum**
3536 Grand Avenue, Dallas; [] The African American Museum was founded in 1974 as a part of the Special Collections at Bishop College, a Historically Black College that closed in 1988. The Museum has operated independently since 1979. The African American Museum is devoted to the preservation and display of African American artistic, cultural and historical materials, and has one of the largest African American Folk Art collections in the United States.

====** Neiman Marcus Building **==== 1618 Main Street, Dallas The red brick and white stone building at the corner of Main and Ervay opened in 1914, replacing a previous store which burned, houses Neiman Marcus corporate headquarters and flagship store. In 1907, Carrie Marcus Neiman, age 24, co-founded the Neiman-Marcus department store in Dallas with her husband and brother. In an era when few women worked outside the home, Carrie Marcus took a job as blouse buyer for a Dallas department store. She proved herself to be a conscientious employee and by age 21 had become one of the highest-paid female workers in Dallas. Carrie married a coworker, Abraham Lincoln Neiman, around 1906. Teaming with Carrie’s brother, they ran a successful sales promotion campaign in Atlanta, Georgia. With the earnings from this venture, the trio opened the first Neiman Marcus store in Dallas, with the goal of providing fine ready-to-wear apparel and unsurpassed customer service. Some 200 pieces of apparel from Carrie Marcus Neiman’s personal fashion collection later became the basis of the Dallas Museum of Fashion, located at the University of North Texas in Denton.

**[[image:http://www.cowboysofcolor.org/images/index_r1_c1.jpg width="96" height="94" align="left"]]National Cowboys of Color Museum and Hall of Fame**
3400 Mount Vernon Avenue, Fort Worth; Official Website: [|www.cowboysofcolor.org] Highlights the accomplishments and contributions of people of Native American, African American and Hispanic decent to the settling of the “Wild West” through artifacts and works of art. Museum highlights include featured exhibits on theTuskgee Airmen and the Buffalo Soldiers

[[image:ftfinfo/mahoney.jpg width="91" height="138" align="left"]]** Women's Suffrage in Dallas County **
Texas Historical Marker, outside "Old Red Courthouse", 100 South Houston Street, Dallas The first organized effort on behalf of women's suffrage in Texas occurred in 1893, when the Texas Equal Rights Association (T.E.R.A), later known as the League of Women Voters of Texas, was formed at a convention held at Dallas' Windsor Hotel. Of the forty-eight charter members of the organization, fourteen were Dallasites. In October of that year, T.E.R.A. leaders helped to organize the Texas Woman's Congress, which met at the State Fair in Dallas. During this period, a weekly suffrage column, entitled "Women in Public" was published in the Dallas Morning News. Suffrage advocates continued their work into the 20th century.

//Nona Boren Mahoney, last president of the Dallas Equal Suffrage Association & first president of the League of Women Voters in Dallas, around 1922//

**[[image:womcoll.jpg width="85" height="122" align="left"]]Woman's Collection of the Blagg-Huey Library, Texas Woman's University**
Denton (about 41 miles northwest of Dallas) The Woman's Collection of the Blagg-Huey Library at Texas Woman's University represents a major research collection on the history of American women. The Library first began collecting the biographies of great women in 1932 at the suggestion of its president, Dr. Louis H. Hubbard, "to serve as role models" to students. The staff is happy to provide tours of the Woman’s Collection to individuals and groups during the hours the Woman’s Collection is open, Monday-Friday, 8a.m.-5p.m.. Special tours on Saturday may be arranged by organizations and groups based on availability of staff for those specific dates.

[[image:5791637476_be6813321e_m.jpg width="108" height="144" align="left"]]** Bear Creek Community **
3925 Jackson Street, Irving Following the Civil War, freedmen moved to this area, and friencs and family once separated by slavery were reconnected. Jim Green, the first African American landowner in what became known as the Bear Creek community, bought his acreage in 1878. Others soon followed and these families organized the Shady Grove Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in 1884, erecting a one-room church and school building on land donated by Jim Green. The congregation, which built a larger structure in 1897, continued to grow and worship together throughout the 20th century. The Bear Creek community school, known as Freedom School, began as a private education facility.

**[[image:SDOC-age-10-208x300.png width="103" height="150" align="left"]]National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame**
1720 Gendy Street, Fort Worth; [|http://www.cowgirl.net] The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame honors and celebrates women, past and present, whose lives exemplify the courage, resilience, and independence that helped shape the American West, and fosters an appreciation of the ideals and spirit of self-reliance they inspire. “Cowgirl is an attitude, really. A pioneer spirit, a special American brand of courage. The cowgirl faces life head on, lives by her own lights, and makes no excuses. Cowgirls take stands, they speak up. They defend things they hold dear.” Dale Evans, 1995 Hall of Fame Honoree

//Sandra Day O'Connor, age 10//