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I’m thinking about making my interaction with stop lights optional. Same with stop signs.

If it fits my schedule, and if I have a little extra time on my hands, I’ll stop. But if I have other things to do, or if I’m in a hurry, or if I just don’t feel like stopping is the right thing to do for me, I won’t.

I’ve been pondering this move for awhile. It has always been an annoying time-suck for me to be stopped randomly when I’m running late for lunch. But I knew it was the right call after reading an online neighborhood brawl over a pickup truck parked in a handicapped space outside a Starbucks.

Apparently, the truck’s driver decided that, despite not having a handicapped sticker or license plate, using the space for a short period of time would be fine.

A well-meaning neighbor, noticing the infraction, posted a picture of the truck on Facebook. But the neighbor didn’t stop there: He did a little research and identified the truck owner’s name and business, suggesting online that anyone willing to park illegally in a handicapped space wasn’t worth being patronized.

I wasn’t offended by any of this. The truck driver was clearly wrong, and the neighbor was just making the digital equivalent of a citizen’s arrest by calling attention to a crime.

But an awful lot of people in this forum felt otherwise. Some piled on the neighbor for “cowardly” publicizing the infraction online as opposed to walking up to the truck’s owner in person and calling him out.

Others were offended by outing the guy’s business — why, they grumbled,

should his employees and family be deprived of income just because the guy parked in the wrong parking spot?

It was pretty entertaining reading, in a train-wreck-is-beautiful kind of way, and it made me realize something: A lot of us don’t believe the law needs to be interpreted literally.

Illegally parking in a handicapped space isn’t the right thing to do, but apparently shaming someone for violating that law isn’t right, either.

There’s a lot of that type of thinking going on these days. We’re using religion, in some cases, and personal values, in others, to justify doing what we think is right as opposed to following the rule

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of law. We’re kind of conscientiously objecting to laws we don’t believe are right and, therefore, shouldn’t apply to us.

All of which brings me back to my new red light philosophy. I’ve told you publicly of my plans, so I don’t want any complaining later when I exercise my rights to sidestep the law if I feel it’s necessary.

Just keep an eye out for me at intersections, and don’t even think about filing a claim against my insurance policy. I’m not so sure that being forced to pay for insurance is a good idea, either.

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I’m going rogue, and it’s none of your business … right?

We’re using religion, in some cases, and personal values, in others, to justify doing what we think is right as opposed to following the rule of law.

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MARCH 11

Paletas y Bicicletas

Clean up neighborhood parks and maybe even score a free bicycle, all while listening to mariachis. Meet at Lake Cliff Park at 2 p.m. to participate in the third annual event.

Lake Cliff Park, 300 E. Colorado Blvd., bikefriendlyoc.org, free

Out & About

MARCH 4

NATURALLY URBAN ART

Peter Hiatt’s photography and sculptures revolve around the differences between nature and suburban development. See the Denton artist’s work for yourself during the opening reception of the “No Unsacred Places” exhibition from 5:30-8 p.m. Oak Cliff Cultural Center, 223 W. Jefferson Blvd., 214.670.3777, dallasculture.org, free

MARCH 5

THE SECOND CITY

Relax and prepare to laugh as The Second City performs its best sketches from the past five decades. The Chicago-based sketch and improv comedy theater shaped the likes of Tina Fey, Bill Murray and Stephen Colbert. The Kessler Theater, 1230 W. Davis St., 214.272.8346, thekessler.org, $28-$42

MARCH 7-APRIL 18

AARP TAX HELP

The library will offer free assistance on state and federal tax returns from noon-4 p.m. on Tuesdays. Be sure to bring your W-2s, previous year’s tax return, Social Security cards for all dependents and photo I.D. North Oak Cliff Library, 302 W. Tenth St., 214.670.7555, dallaslibrary.org, free

MARCH 25

WALT STILLMAN

French filmmaker

Walt Stillman is often considered the king of bourgeois movies, and he’s traveling all the way from Paris for a double feature of “Love and Friendship” and “Last Days of Disco.” He’ll also take part in an on-stage discussion between screenings.

The Texas Theatre, 231 W. Jefferson Blvd., 214.948.1546, thetexastheatre. com, $12-$20

MARCH 25

WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH

Explore the rewarding and devastating experiences of 19thcentury black female singers during awardwinning author Beverly Jenkins’ discussion.

The dialogue begins at 4 p.m.

Bishop Arts Theatre Center, 215 S. Tyler, 214.948.0716, bishopartstheatre.org, $18-$22

MARCH 31

A NIGHT IN HAVANA

Dance the evening away and support the Rosemont Early Childhood PTA at La Noche En Havana. The annual auction from 7:30-11:30 p.m. benefits arts education at local Dallas ISD schools. The Empire Room, 1225 N. Riverfront Blvd., recpta.org, $50-$60

CEMENT CITY’S LAST REMNANT

Efforts to preserve the old Eagle Ford School clash with its market value

By RACHEL STONE

Bad things happen on Chalk Hill Road.

No one lives on the stretch between West Davis and Interstate 30, but plenty people have died there.

Randy Dumse has owned the old Eagle Ford School on Chalk Hill Road since 1987.

In that time, he’s been shot at, witnessed a fatal hit-and-run accident and found many stolen cars, among other illicit incidents that occurred weekly if not daily. Throughout the 1990s, several people were murdered there, and other victims were dumped there after the fact.

Dumse ran his computer-board manufacturing company, New Micros Inc., out of the building until a few years ago. He never fixed up the exterior or put up a sign as to avoid drawing attention.

Now retired, he wants to sell the old pink school on the hill.

There is a taker — a telecom company that already leases part of the land for a cell tower — but they would tear the building down, at odds with preservation efforts currently underway.

The school is one of the last structures related to the bygone Eagle Ford community. It served generations of Mex-

Opposite: The Eagle Ford School on Chalk Hill Road is in the

ican-American children, although it’s most famous as the elementary school that the outlaw Bonnie Parker attended.

The Dallas Landmark Commission and the Dallas Mexican American Historical League recently began the process to make the school a designated historic landmark. The landmark commission’s recent vote, if approved by City Council, would spare the building from demolition while it’s being considered for landmark status, which takes two years.

Eagle Ford School would be among the first historic landmarks in West Dallas, and only the fourth citywide related to Mexican-American history (the other three are St. Ann’s School, Pike Park and Luna’s Tortilla Factory, all in the old Little Mexico neighborhood, now called Uptown).

Children attending Eagle Ford School lived in Trinity Portland Cement Co. housing, Arcadia Park the Ledbetter neighborhood and rural areas.

The Trinity cement company, which operated from 1909-1970, was the largest cement producer in Dallas, and it created

The Eagle Ford School is on Chalk HIll Road, which has been plagued over the years with strange and violent crimes.

a company town, Cement City, which Hispanics called “cemento grande.” At its height in the 1920s, about 900 people called Cement City home. It had a medical clinic, a grocery, churches, a baseball field with bleachers, a golf driving range and tennis courts.

From Oak Cliff-based architect Marcel Quimby’s research on Eagle Ford:

“Houses in the Mexican-American village were mostly ‘shotgun’ style with five to six rooms and front porches and were without bathrooms; streets were unpaved. The Mexican-American village contrasted with the larger homes with indoor plumbing, paved streets and sidewalks and well-kept lawns in the Anglo village.”

The Eagle Ford School was built in 1923 with Dallas city bond funding, and the Trinity cement company donated the supplies. It was built of concrete in the gothic revival style.

It’s built like a tank.

But Dumse says it’s not as sturdy as it was 10 or 20 years ago.

Historic preservation efforts “could complicate the sale of it, and the building has deteriorated significantly in the last few years,” he says. “There are separations in the walls and other problems.”

The building is on the tax rolls for around $200,000, and it’s on the market for “over a quarter million” he says.

Dumse now lives in East Texas. He had two strokes recently, and he can’t care for the building as he once did. Its triangulation amid high-crime areas and its remote location in an industrial neighborhood seems constantly to draw people with bad intentions, he says.

“If somebody wanted to take it over and use it for a museum or something of that nature, I’d highly applaud them on it,” he says. “But for me, I need to cash out and be done.”

It served generations of Mexican-American children, although it’s most famous as the elementary school that the outlaw Bonnie Parker attended.

DELICIOUS

A new day for an old favorite

By RACHEL STONE

DID YOU KNOW? The Kollinger brothers are third-generation Dallasites, and their mother was born and reared in Oak Cliff.

Jeffrey Kollinger and Ricky Tillman worked together under Dean Fearing at the Mansion on Turtle Creek.

They were friends.

Tillman, born and reared in Oak Cliff, went on to follow his dream, creating Tillman’s Corner in the neighborhood now known as the Bishop Arts District, in 1992. Tillman died of cancer in 1997, but his wife, Sara Tillman, carried on. She partnered with event planner Todd Fiscus to launch a revamped version, Tillman’s Roadhouse, in 2007.

Tillman’s Roadhouse now is coming into its third era.

Sara retired recently and sold the restaurant to Kollinger and his brother, Ross. The Kollinger brothers started Spice of Life catering together in 1995.

Tillman’s 3.0, as Jeffrey Kollinger sometimes calls it, has a brand-new bar near the entry, complete with an experienced mixologist and a USB outlet for each seat.

Michael Morabito is executive chef, and the menu is Texas gourmet. Or Texas chic. Texas glamour food. Kollinger hasn’t invented just the right buzzword for it yet.

Whatever you call it, their menu exudes creativity plus decades of experience.

Take the grilled Texas quail, marinated in a pomegranate pinot noir sauce and served with a dirty-rice filled crepe slathered with lemon beurre blanc. “I’ll put it up against any other quail dish in Texas,” Kollinger says.

The chicken-fried steak is a 44 Farms filet mignon served with charred-poblano gravy. Shrimp and grits has andouille sausage, lobster butter and fried-greentomato croutons. A pecan-crusted okra appetizer comes with a green-olive remoulade.

Tillman’s signature tableside s’mores are still on the menu alongside new desserts such as key-lime and cactus-pear cheesecake.

TILLMAN’S ROADHOUSE

Ambiance: Texas chic

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An all-new cocktail menu features a blood-orange margarita and the stonefruit old fashioned, which is made with nectarine-infused rye.

Kollinger, whose clients have included Pat and Emmitt Smith and Hillary Clinton, says he’s been asked to open

dozens of restaurants. He could’ve chosen Preston Center and likely done quite well. But he says Tillman’s inspired him more than anything else.

“It’s a new beginning for this restaurant,” he says. “We want to do stuff no one else is doing.”

Opposite page: Grilled quail with dirty-rice stuffed crepe and pinot noir sauce. Above: Pecan-crusted okra with green-olive remoulade.

GETTING AWAY FROM IT ALL

Less than 10 miles from downtown, this Oak Cliff house is a world away

STORY BY RACHEL STONE

PHOTOS BY DANNY FULGENCIO

A 1956 Triumph Twenty One is one of two vintage motorcycles Gream keeps inside his house. A midcentury modern furniture dealer, Gream also collects art from that era.

THE WORLD falls away when Barry Gream enters his tree-shaded home on a Gladiolus Lane highpoint.

It’s not just a home; it’s a sanctuary.

“I wanted to make this house about nature,” Gream says.

A cedar patio runs the length of the western side of the house, where Gream’s collection of Paolo Soleri bells softly chime. There is an outdoor shower right outside the master bedroom, completely private even while out in the open. The house sits on a heavily treed double lot with a small studio, an outdoor theater and a big goat pen.

It’s a 1963 modern house that Gream found at an estate sale.

It was 2007, and Gream saw a newspaper ad for a sale on Gladiolus.

Gladiolus is a special street. About a mile southwest of Kiest Park, it has two lanes with no shoulder and a few rolling hills. There are tall trees and a collection of one-story traditional and mid-century modern homes on oversized lots, some of them wooded. Take a slow drive down Gladiolus and imagine for a second you’re in the Smoky Mountain foothills or somewhere in the Pacific Northwest.

Anyway, Gream attended this estate sale, where it so happened that the home’s original owners were manning the sale.

They had retired from homebuilding, and they were ready to move.

The house had never been renovated; it was architecturally untouched.

Gream, a furniture dealer whose 20c Design specializes in high-end mid-century modern styles, knew he had to have it. The home couldn’t have gone to a better steward.

He removed some walls to open up the floor plan, and he renovated the home’s one original bathroom as well as the kitchen.

A two-car garage was converted to a master bedroom and spectacular master bath.

Top: Horizontal lines are at play everywhere throughtout the house, a subtle visual theme that pulls everything together. Above: Steps lead from the home’s extensive stainedcedar patio to other parts of the property. Right: The guest bedroom features simple mid-century modern furniture. Opposite page: A cedar log, found on the property, became a focal point for the master bathroom, which has an open shower and deep tub.

The retail price of the renovation and materials would’ve cost more than the actual price of the house, Gream suspects. But a few factors worked in his favor to bring the price down drastically.

His brother, Brian Gream, is a builder whose specialties include historic home renovations, for starters. Second, he used his decades of experience in home design to bargain shop for materials.

He noticed luxury tile showroom Ann Sacks was having a moving sale, but he was a little late to find anything dirtcheap. He wound up finding a cache of Ann Sacks tile from a guy on Craigslist — so much tile that the Volvo station wagon he was driving at the time could barely carry it all — for $100. He used them to tile the entire guest bathroom and the kitchen countertops.

He found some of the kitchen cabinetry still in the boxes that another Design District showroom had left on the curb. The rest he bought cheap just after the

recession hit in 2008, when luxury products were harder to sell and thus were often discounted.

Landscaping was a big part of his vision as well. The property was heavily wooded overgrown so that the “forest” came all the way up to the house. It took weeks to cut it back and begin work on the patio and outdoor amenities.

A stone pathway now leads down into the second lot, where Gream created a clearing. There he set up a big movie screen with seating and complimentary metal artwork. The theater is only about 20 feet from the backdoor, but once down there, it feels like you’re someplace else.

And then there are the goats. Gream popped into a moving sale in Little Forest Hills a few years back. The owners had two adorable goats and Gream asked, jokingly, “how much for the goats?” It turned out the goats were for sale, but only to someone who had the appropriate home for them — they’re pets.

“They’re smarter animals than we give them credit for,” Gream says.

Gream’s uncle in Tennessee had raised goats, and he’d always been fond of them. Plus, he had plenty of room. So with all the house renovations completed, he set up a luxury goat enclosure with a shed and a gazebo.

“I wanted to make this house about nature.”

Opposite page: Housecat Olive lounges in a sunny spot. Above: This hallway vignette shows that modern and traditional can mix. Right: One of Gream’s two goats, Cinco.

THE X FACTOR

The biggest and best high school you don’t know

By RACHEL STONE

Molina High School, which turns 20 this year, is among the best non-magnet high schools in Dallas ISD — and the numbers prove it.

It was one of seven high schools district-wide that received the highest number of distinctions possible from the State of Texas last year. And its students have the highest algebra scores of any comprehensive high school in the district.

That level of excellence comes from a school where about 92 percent of approximately 2,100 students are economically disadvantaged, according to federal standards. About 27 percent have limited English proficiency.

It’s hard to pinpoint exactly how the school became so successful. Principal

Terry-Ann Rodriguez credits the teachers as well as the school community for creating a space where students expect themselves to achieve.

Most teachers offer free after-school tutoring. And the high algebra scores can be attributed to math teachers who offer extra instruction every Saturday, she says.

“They care. They work extra hard. They are working all the time,” she says.

Next year the school will offer 150 ninth-graders the chance to enter a collegiate academy for business and technology. That track makes available up to 60 hours of tuition-free college credit through Mountain View College earned simultaneously while students are achieving their high school diplomas.

Aside from straight academics, Molina also has strong visual and performing arts

education, plus a culinary arts program.

Salomon Elias, formerly the assistant band director at Sunset High School, recently took over as director of the Molina band.

Assistant director Chris Cavanaugh taught band at three Molina feeder schools: Mary McLeod Bethune, Nancy J. Chochran and Leila P. Cowart elementary schools. When he arrived at Molina, he captured as many of his former elementary band students as possible. This year the band has about 95 members, up from 35 when he started five years ago, and Cavanaugh is still striving for his goal of 100 musicians.

“A lot of the kids have achieved great strides,” Cavanaugh says. “They’ve achieved more than they thought they could.”

Along with marching band, there’s also a garage band class and a mariachi band, which went to the state competition in February. Molina offers graphic and fine arts, theater, choir, show choir and two dance troupes.

Choir instructor Jackie Turner-Creel says she’s proudest of her students for their work ethic. They often compete against wealthier schools, where parents can afford private lessons. Some

Algebra teacher Roseanne Burzynski leads students in the “quadratic formula dance.” Molina High School has the highest algebra scores of any comprehensive high school in Dallas ISD.

Molina parents work more than one job and rarely have the chance to see their talented children perform. But the kids keep their chins up, she says.

“They keep a positive attitude, and they’re very humble,” Turner-Creel says. “They surprise me with the character they show. They don’t get down, they get stronger.”

Molina’s culinary arts program started two years ago, part of a hospitality concentration that also includes courses in

restaurant, M.J.’s Café.

Next year, they plan to add a baking class.

“The idea is that, whatever they want to do in life, they always have this skill to fall back on,” Denman says.

The ultimate goal is for every Molina student to graduate and pursue some sort of post-secondary education, Rodriguez says. Currently the graduation rate is 90.28 percent, compared to the districtwide rate of about 88 percent.

Molina’s 180 staff members try to make the school an inviting, safe place, a home away from home, she says. And because of that there are “minimal discipline issues.”

restaurant management and entrepreneurship. Upper-level students can take a three-hour practicum in the kitchen. The lead instructor is chef Michael Denman, who has a culinary degree as well as a bachelor’s degree in history.

Every student in the program is expected to earn two food-handler certifications from the State of Texas. And they gain real experience catering events and serving lunch twice a week in the school’s

Transparency and communication are factors in the equation of what makes Molina academically successful. Teachers and administrators hold meetings three times a week to analyze classroom data, which drives instruction. Rodriguez holds “coffee with the principal” meetings monthly in the school’s library, inviting parents as well as community members to ask questions and hear updates.

It takes everyone being involved.

“We have dedicated teachers, veterans and newbies, but they’ve all bought into the vision,” Rodriguez says. “We’re in this together. We built it together.”

“They surprise me with the character they show. They don’t get down, they get stronger.”

Karen Gallegos, Ileana Garcia and Diana Sanchez, students in Molina’s culinary program, prepare lunch for M.J.’s cafe. See page 22 for details on the restaurant, which is open to the public.

PARKS

Those of us perturbed by seeing people litter or fail to clean up after their dogs in public parks might see some relief this year. The City of Dallas has reinstated its Park Rangers program, assigning six staff members to patrol its parks for added safety and to better enforce city laws. The rangers would be certified in CPR and other life-saving skills in case they need to assist the public in a medical emergency, but largely they would be charged with enforcing the often-unenforced rules of the city, like public alcohol consumption, ensuring special events in the parks follow city code and the newly passed ban on smoking, which goes into effect March 1. Most major cities in Texas have park rangers on staff — Austin has 24, while Houston has 37. The Park and Recreation Department hope to find the funds needed to eventually add 10 bicycle patrol rangers as well as a citizen park patrol.

HEALTHCARE

An Oak Cliff-based healthcare nonprofit has a new name. AIDS Arms Inc. is now Prism Health North Texas. The organiza-

tion opened in 1986 to provide healthcare and other services amid the AIDS epidemic crisis. The new name reflects the broader spectrum of services it now provides. “HIV treatment has improved over the last 30 years to such a degree that today the focus is less on AIDS and more on the prevention and treatment of HIV,” says Prism Health North Texas CEO Dr. John T. Carlo. Prism changed the names of its two health clinics to Trinity – Oak Cliff clinic and Peabody –South Dallas clinic. The organization’s mission won’t change with the name.

EDUCATION

M.J.’s Cafe , the Molina High School restaurant, serves lunch from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. twice a week, and it’s open to the public. Students of the school’s culinary program serve tacos every Tuesday, and on Wednesdays, there’s a plate lunch. All of the lunches cost around $5, and it’s cash only. To gain entry to the restaurant, you’ll have to show a state-issued ID and receive a guest pass at the front desk. Lunches can be eaten in the restaurant (which is inside a classroom) or be taken to go.

BIZ BUZZ

WHAT’S UP WITH NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESSES

ONE GALLERY CLOSES, TWO GALLERIES OPEN

Artisan’s Collective, which opened in the Bishop Arts District 11 years ago, is closing. The gallery’s owner, Ted Matthews, told the Dallas Morning News that his rent is $7,000 a month, up from less than $3,000 a month in 2006. While that gallery is closing, two others are opening in the Bishop Arts District. Jen Maudlin Gallery opened recently at 408 N. Bishop. And Advertising executive Cameron Smith is opening Bishop Arts Modern, at 508 W. Davis, “a mixed-media studio and gallery featuring his own work and the talent of guest artists in the realms of music, art and fashion.”

NICE SHAVED ICE

Jerick Togami, a 20-year-old student at Dallas Baptist University, has leased a restaurant space on West Seventh at Tyler for Nice Ice Shop , serving Japanese shaved ice. Oak Cliff-based attorney Chad West recently renovated the 1,400-square-foot space, turning an old house into a restaurant with a big patio on the front. It also has some parking in the rear of the building. Togami says Nice Ice Shop will offer all organic syrups, condensed milk and ice cream. He’s already purchased machines that produce fluffy shaved ice. He hopes to open it as soon as April.

TWO-TIMES THE FARMERS MARKET

The Oak Cliff Lion’s Club Farmers Market is only about a year old, but it’s already expanding. The market is moving from Cliff Temple Baptist Church to Lula B’s on Fort Worth Avenue. It’s also going biweekly, taking place on the second and fourth Saturday of every month, from March to August. John McCall of the Lion’s Club says it’s possible they will increase the frequency of the market in May, June and July but nothing has been decided yet.

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Words matter

Aesop wrote a fable about a donkey who discovered a lion’s skin. He tried it on, strutted around, and scared many animals. Soon a fox came along and the donkey tried to frighten him, too. But when the fox heard the donkey’s voice, the fox said, “If you want to terrify me, you’ll have to disguise your bray.” Aesop’s moral? Clothes may disguise a fool, but his words always give him away.

I had hoped that after the election the barrage of angry words would settle. But it seems that America is awash in destructive words.

Proverbs 8:21 says, “The tongue has the power of life and death.” Every word affects ourselves and the people around us. In a sense, there is no small talk. Every word matters.

So I want to call us to words of praise. We can accept a culture of criticism and harsh words, or we can commit to the opposite practice of the art of praise.

Praise changes things. This is true of the praise we give to God and the praise we give to one another. When we praise God, we affirm God’s mystery, sovereignty and creative capacity for both stability and change. When we praise the ones we love, we draw out the best in them, affirming their worth. When we even find something to praise in our enemies, we open ourselves to reconciliation and peace.

In a religious sense, praise lifts us up. Praise lifts us heavenward to see things as God sees them. Praise transforms us, sustaining us through the hardest of days. Praise can flip a situation, bring light into darkness, and heal a broken heart.

How can we practice the art of praise?

We need first to learn to offer praise even in the worst of times. What if the worst of situations didn’t bring out our

worst selves? Not long ago I found myself angry and frustrated at an airport. It was clear that the person in front of me could not solve my problem as I would have liked. But it was also clear that angry words were not going to help. So I paused, dug deep and then expressed a compliment. The result? The person became my advocate rather than my enemy, working for a solution that was better than expected.

This leads to the second idea: our praise needs to be steeped in humility. When we go off on a rant, it’s all about us. We’re just venting out, how we alone are affected. No one is edified by a rant.

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Paul counsels in Ephesians, “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.” (Eph. 4:29)

Aesop was right. Our speech and the type of wisdom that governs our tongues always displays the state of our hearts.

May Oak Cliff be a place, and may we be a people, of praise.

Brent McDougal is pastor of Cliff Temple Baptist Church. The Worship section is a regular feature underwritten by Advocate Publishing and by the neighborhood business people and churches listed on these pages. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

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Our Oak Cliff parades today celebrate Cinco de Mayo and Mardi Gras, family fun for everyone.

But less than 100 years ago, the Ku Klux Klan paraded through the streets of our neighborhood on a Saturday afternoon.

About 1,000 men and women, wearing the KKK’s robes and hoods, paraded around the old Oak Cliff Downtown, ending at Beckley and Tilden, on June 14, 1924.

Leading the procession was Rev. A.C. Parker, then a 45-year-old insurance company director and oilman who lived in the 1300 block of Kings Highway.

Parker, a “Cyclops” in the Klan, founded two Oak Cliff churches, Rosemont Christian Church, whose building still stands at Tyler and Centre streets, and the Memorial Christian Church of Oak Cliff, which was on Jefferson and Oak Cliff boulevards.

The parade drew about 20,000 spec-

Normal racism

Whenthe KKK paraded in Oak Cliff

tators, according to newspaper accounts of the day. This was at the height of the Klan’s popularity in Dallas.

The Dallas Klan No. 66 had about 13,000 members in the 1920s; it was the largest chapter in the United States, according to Michael Phillips’ 2004 book “White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001”. Hiram Wesley Evans, a dentist with a practice downtown, became national leader of the KKK in 1922.

Higher-ups in the Dallas Klan included the police commissioner, a Dallas Times-Herald reporter, four Dallas Power and Light officials, the Ford Motor Company’s local superintendent, the Democratic Party chairman and the county tax assessor, according to Phillips’ book. Local KKK members also included police chief Jesse E. Curry, police homicide division head Will Fritz and Robert L. Thornton, a banker who served as mayor from 1953-’61.

Business owners were coerced into joining or at least supporting the Klan under threat of boycott. Politicians loyal to the KKK often fared well, and the Klan held political rallies downtown on the eves of elections.

Klan members worked to portray the KKK as a benevolent organization. They started Hope Cottage for orphaned children and organized various relief efforts when disasters struck.

But its main purpose was to act as a literal whip to enforce its racist and Puritan ideals.

The best-documented incident happened April 1, 1921. A group of klansmen, joined by a Times-Herald reporter, drove to the home of Adolphus Hotel elevator operator Alex Johnson, who was black. They accused Johnson of having sex with a white woman in the hotel. They threatened to hang him and burned “KKK” into his forehead with acid, according

to Phillips’ book. Then they dumped him, bloody and shirtless, in front of the Adolphus.

Not every attack was so public.

The Dallas KKK was known to abduct

ideals. In particular, being perceived as a “whore.” The Dallas KKK particularly believed in “protecting” white women, and willingly stepping out of line could result in meeting their wrath.

The Oak Cliff KKK parade, that June day in 1924, ended with speeches and “refreshments provided by George W. Dealey of Oak Cliff.”

its victims and torture them at a whipping post in the Trinity River Bottoms.

Sometimes they were victims with stories similar to that of Alex Johnson, a black man perceived to step out of his place in society. But Dallasites could meet the KKK’s whipping post for any infraction against the Klan’s Puritan

Dealey, the father of newspaper publisher George Bannerman Dealey, wasn’t a klansman. The younger Dealey disliked the KKK, not because of its white-supremacist beliefs, but because it attracted lower class people and posed a political threat to the white Dallas elites who’d always held power.

The KKK’s popularity declined around the time of World War II. Klan rallies occasionally pop up in Dallas, most notably in 1988 and 2016, when counter protesters far outnumbered the klansmen. — RACHEL STONE

Left: Hiram Wesley Evans, a dentist with a practice in Downtown Dallas leads a KKK march in Washington, D.C., September 1926. Evans was a national leader in the KKK.

Above: The drum corps of the Dallas Women’s KKK poses in front of Union Station around 1930. The Dallas Klan No. 66 at one time was the largest KKK chapter in the nation.

Politicians loyal to the KKK often fared well, and the Klan held political rallies downtown on the eves of elections.

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