Human Rights Dallas Maps
A project by SMU Embrey Human Rights ProgramHuman Rights Dallas Digital Mapping Project
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Richard Miles, Free at Last
Around 3:00 am on the morning of May 16, 1994, Richard Miles’ life was forever changed. While standing on the corner of Lovers Lane and Bluffview Boulevard in Dallas, Miles’ was spotted by Dallas…
Jane Elkins
Jane was an African American woman born around 1800. The first legal record of Jane was when she was sold by Edward Welborn to John Young. The Bill of Sale included the following wording: "I have this…
Desegregation of Schools in Dallas
On May 17, 1954 the Supreme court ruled against the Topeka Board of Education. The Supreme Court merged together four separate cases that had made their way through the state and district courts. All…
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Dallas CASA - Court-Appointed Special Advocates
Imagine being a child that is neglected, abused and then placed in the hands of strangers in a court system. In the foster care system, a child may move from one temporary foster home to another.…
Homelessness - Tent Cities in Dallas
By a 2015 count, there were nearly 10,000 homeless people living on the streets of Dallas. The city in 2016, under the leadership of then mayor Mike Rawlings, proposed solutions for providing…
Man Shoots a Transgender Woman and Jumps Bail
On September 20, 2019, Domingo Ramirez-Cayente drove up to pedestrian Daniela Calderon, a Latina transgender woman, in the 11000 block of Dennis Road, north of Royal Lane in Dallas, where he made…
Christopher Shun Scott, Renewing Hope for the Wrongfully Convicted
In the early morning hours of April 7, 1997, two armed men broke into a home on the 4600 block of Hopkins Street in Dallas, Texas.[1] In the home, one of the men confronted Alonzo Aguilar and demanded…