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Lucy Patterson
Lucy Patterson was the first African Americans, African American woman elected to the Dallas City Council. Patterson was a social worker, politician, and professor. Family life and education Lucy Pearl Phelps was born in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, on June 21, 1931, to John C. and Florence Harllee Phelps. She had one sister, Norma. Her maternal grandfather Norman Washington Harllee served as the principal for the Dallas Colored High School for eleven years and was the first African American man to have a school named after him in 1929. Her mother was a social worker for the Dallas Independent School District and was the first African American faculty member of the Graduate School of Social Work for the University of Texas at Arlington. Patterson attended Booker T. Washington High School (Tulsa, Oklahoma), Booker T. Washington High School from 1942 to 1945, graduating at 14 years old. Although accepted to Howard University, she attended Wiley College Extension until she was 15 and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas
Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the most populous city in and the county seat, seat of Dallas County, Texas, Dallas County, covering nearly 386 square miles into Collin County, Texas, Collin, Denton County, Texas, Denton, Kaufman County, Texas, Kaufman, and Rockwall County, Texas, Rockwall counties. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census population of 1,304,379, it is the List of United States cities by population, ninth-most populous city in the U.S. and the List of cities in Texas by population, third-most populous city in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. Located in the North Texas region, the city of Dallas is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
