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The Life The Legacy The Man

William Bill” Blair Jr. Jesse “Hoss” Walker, and Buster Haywood, and touring with Jesse Owens and the Harlem Globetrotters. Blair 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.

Blair founded 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.

Blair has been a civil rights activist for more than six decades. In 1986, Blair launched the first Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Parade, and this parade is now an institution in Dallas. Blair is a major force in local and state politics and is also an advocate for the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance. In 2004, he founded the Religious Hall of Fame to honor African American ministers. Mr. Blair felt that this was a platform that needed to be built and he built it from the ground up to be one of the most sucessful of its kind.

A native of Dallas, Texas, William (Bill) Blair, Jr., was born on October 17, 1921. William was a Former Negro League baseball player turned newspaper publisher, Starting his business Elite News a one of a kind publishing.

Blair has been a community voice in Dallas for many decades. 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. William “Bill” Blair Jr. a Negro League Baseball Museum inductee, pitched from 1946 to 1951 for the Indianapolis Clowns and other Negro League baseball teams. His baseball career includes pitching a no-hitter in the Denver Post Tournament, playing with the late Winfield Welch,

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Blair lived in Dallas, Texas servived by Mozelle Blair, his wife of seventy one years. All of his children are involved in the family business and their children and theri grand children.

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