BLACK HISTORY FEB/MAR 2023

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BLACK HISTORY

WILLIAM “BILL” BLAIR JR

October 17, 1921 - April 20, 2014

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Dallas Black History Facts

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Dallas Black History Fact!

Pearl C. Anderson (1898 - 1990) grew up in modest means in Louisiana, where she was denied an education until she was 12 and the Rosewald Foundation built a school for Black children near her home. She attended college for a year and moved to Dallas where she purchased a plot of land and built her own very successful grocery store. She married Dr. J.W. Anderson, a wealthy well-respected Black doctor, and after his death, she dedicated herself and her wealth to philanthropic pursuits. Anderson was beloved by the Dallas community and donated time and money to organizations like the NAACP, Bishop College, the American Red Cross, and many more. In 1955 she donated $350,000 worth of properties in downtown Dallas to the Community Chest Trust Fund, which is still being used to provide early childhood education for disadvantaged children in Dallas.

In 1995 Gov. George W. Bush

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My Grandfather, The Founder of the Elite News newspaper, William Bill Blair Jr also started the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade in Dallas nearly 30 years ago. Originally held on Mondays To Celebrate MLK Birthday. It Became the largest parade in not only Dallas, but the entire nation. It Was The “Peoples Parade” until the city took over and it became political.

In 1989, linebacker Jessie Armstead, of Carter High School in Dallas, TX signs his letter intent with the University of Miami. Armstead was a legend in Dallas before he ever suited up for the Canes. He was considered the nation’s best linebacker. He was even mentioned in the best selling book Friday Night Lights. During the 1988 Texas high school playoffs, Carter defeated Odessa Permian, which was featured in the book. Armstead registered nearly an astounding 200 tackles during his senior year alone.

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Baseball player and newspaper publisher William Blair, Jr., was born on October 17, 1921. A former Negro League baseball player turned newspaper publisher, Blair has been a community voice in Dallas for over forty years. Blair attended Booker T. Washington High School and Prairie View A&M University. After six months at Prairie View A&M, Blair enlisted in the United States Army and became the youngest black first sergeant in the United States Army during World War II.

My grandfather, a Negro League Baseball Museum inductee, pitched from 1946 to 1951 for the Indianapolis Clowns and other Negro League baseball teams. His baseball career included pitching a no-hitter in the Denver Post Tournament, playing with the late Winfield Welch, Jesse “Hoss” Walker, and Buster Haywood, and touring with Jesse Owens and the Harlem Globetrotters. William Blair Jr was instrumental in the development of the African American Museum’s Texas Sports Hall of Fame and serves on its advisory board. He was inducted in 1996 as a member of its inaugural class.

He found- ed the Highlight News (1947-1957). He also later founded the Southwest Sports News, a newspaper that specialized in publishing scores from Black college games throughout the United States. The paper was renamed The Elite News in 1960. One of the most influential black newspapers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Elite News created “The Elite News Awards Night,” which was the first African American awards ceremony in Dallas when it began in 1975 and still going .

William Blair Jr had been a civil rights activist for more than six decades. In 1986, he launched the first Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Parade and this parade is now an institution in Dallas. He was a major force in local and state politics and was also an advocate for the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance with friend SM Wright. In 2004, he founded the Religious Hall of Fame to honor African American ministers.

William Blair Jr lived in Dallas, Texas with my Grandmother Mozelle, his wife of sixty-three years. All of his children were involved in the family business.

My Grandfather passed away on April 20, 2014 at age 92.

SHOTZ KITCHEN

HERSHEY’S “Perfectly Chocolate” Chocolate Cake

PREP TIME

15 minutes

BAKE TIME

30 minutes

COOL TIME

1 hour 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar

• 3/4 cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa

• 1 - 1/2 tsps baking soda

• 2 eggs

• 1/2 cup vegetable oil

• 1 cup boiling water

Directions

• 1 - 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 - 1/2 tsps baking powder

• 1 tsp salt

• 1 cup milk

• 2 tsps vanilla extract

1. Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round baking pans.

2. Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of mixer 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour batter into prepared pans.

3. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely. Frost with “Perfectly Chocolate” Chocolate Frosting.

Recipe by: Debra Blair Abron

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Dallas Black History Fact!

The first African-American mayor of Dallas (1995). Originally from Austin, Texas, Ambassador Ron Kirk graduated from Austin College and earned his law degree at the University of Texas School of Law.

After graduating from law school, he served as Texas Secretary of State under Governor Ann Richards. In 1995, Ambassador Kirk was elected as mayor of Dallas and served two terms. Soon after, he practiced law as a partner in the international law firm Vinson & Elkins, LLP. He was named one of “The 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America” by The National Law Journal in 2008.

President Barack Obama nominated Ambassador Kirk to serve as the 16th U.S. Trade Representative. He was confirmed in 2009 by the Senate. Also, Ambassador Kirk was a member of President Obama’s Cabinet and served as the President’s principal trade advisor, negotiator, and spokesperson on trade issues.

Dallas Black History Fact!

Arthello Beck, Jr., was born in Dallas on July 17, 1941. He was the first African-American to own and operate an art gallery in Dallas. Arthello Beck graduated from Dallas’s Lincoln High School, where he received his only art training; beyond that, he was self-taught. He had a speech impediment and he tended to express himself more through his art than through speech, especially as a very young man. Beck used the main Dallas Public Library as a way to learn more about art. Beck’s artistry depicted the life and culture of African-American people when it wasn’t popular, beginning in the 1960s. He opened an art gallery in Oak Cliff around 1973 and owned the gallery for more than thirty years. In 1988, he was one of four winners of an art contest in which the winning paintings were reproduced on billboards. The painting, writ large, was reproduced on billboards throughout the Dallas area sequentially for a year and was available for viewing by as many as 400,000 motorists per day. Beck relished the tremendous amount of exposure for one of his paintings. Beck’s painting of Jesus being baptized by John was done for the Crest-Moore King Memorial United Methodist Church; in it, both Jesus and John are presented as black men. Beck’s artwork was on display in art galleries, museums, churches, colleges, universities, community centers, the Dallas City Hall’s Great Court, and the State Fair of Texas. You’ve likely seen his work if you’ve passed through Terminal D at Dallas-Forth Worth Airport. Beck’s most well-known work is a 20-foot-wide rendering of Caddo Lake titled Cypress Trees. It was embedded in the floor a year after his death. During his life, Beck donated several of his paintings to the Seagoville Federal Correctional Institute. Considered by many to be one of the leading artists of the Southwest, Beck traveled to Central America, South America, West Africa, England, China, Egypt, Turkey, and the Caribbean. Beck once told a reporter, “I do believe an artist has to see things. An artist has to travel.”

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