Dallas Freedman’s Towns Dallas Freedman’s Towns
Beginning in the 1860s in the area around Cochran Street, several segregated African American communities populated by freed slaves developed straddling the northern city limits. In the following decades, these distinct communities merged to become Freedman’s Town/North Dallas, known here as Short North Dallas, the center of African American life in early Dallas. While businesses and professional offices fronted Allen and Hall Streets, the community’s civic, religious and cultural institutions were centered in today’s Arts District. The first YMCA (Moorland, 1930), public park (Griggs Park, originally Hall Street Negro Park, 1915) and public high school (Booker T. Washington, 1922) designated for African Americans in segregated Dallas were all located there.
A partir de la década de 1860 en la zona de Cochran Street, varias comunidades afroamericanas separadas poblada por esclavos liberados desarrollaron entre los límites de la ciudad norte. En las décadas siguientes, las distintas comunidades se fusionaron para convertirse en Freedman’s Town/North Dallas, conocido aquí como Short North Dallas, el centro de la vida afroamericana en los principios Dallas. Mientras que las empresas y despachos profesionales afrontaban las calles Hall y Allen, la comunidad cívica y las instituciones religiosas y culturales se centraron en el Arts District de hoy. El primer YMCA (Moorland, 1930), parque público (Griggs Park, originalmente Hall Street Negro Park, 1915) y una escuela secundaria pública (Booker T. Washington, 1922) designado para los afroamericanos segregados en Dallas se encontraban ahí.