Dallas artist Vicki Meek is leading efforts to create a monument for the Tenth Street district.
Old homes have been torn down along North Street in the Tenth Street Historic District east of Interstate 35E. The Nasher Sculpture Center is working to memorialize the freedman's town while it still has residents who remember its history.The Nasher Sculpture Center has launched a collaboration with the Tenth Street Historic District to document and mark the historically Black neighborhood — before it’s possibly gone.
African American slaves were first brought to Oak Cliff in 1845; by 1900, the neighborhood had some 500 Black residents, and Tenth Street had become a segregated Black enclave within Oak Cliff. But now, Meek says, “there is aggressive gentrification in the Tenth Street area because it’s very convenient to downtown.”
“But there are still people here,” she says, “who have real memories of the community as it once was.”Street signs marks the Tenth Street Historic District, which is listed as one of the most endangered historic sites in America by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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