Activist discovers that site of much-debated Kroger project was once Dallas’ first Black high school | Commentary
You can’t understand the significance of Sims’ discovery at 3212 Cochran without first knowing the history of today’s pricy, glitzy Uptown.just north of downtown Dallas. As railroad lines were built where U.S. Highway 75 later would run, the neighborhood, also known as North Dallas or State Thomas, boomed and its population peaked in the 1920s.
Amber’s family attended Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church nearby, and her mom regularly pointed out that the construction of Cityplace forced the congregation to leave its first home for its current Washington Street location. Document searches produced only dead ends. But then came the 1899 fire insurance map, created by the venerable Sanborn Map Company, that designated a building at 3212 Cochran Street as Dallas’ “Colored High School.”Amber had enough threads by that point to suspect that the “Colored High School” was one and the same as the B.F. Darrell School mentioned in the children’s book. Finding a 1969 column byfirst Black columnist, the late Julia Scott Reed, was the confirmation Sims needed.
Amber told me that, even with all the other clues, documents and interviews she uncovered, the Clark book and Reed news story were most critical. His name was transferred to an Oak Cliff school that opened in 1971. Today the legacy lives on as the New Tech High School at B.F. Darrell.
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