Timeline of History in the Evans & Rosedale Business and Cultural District
Through Time on Evans Avenue!
(Map from Dallas Fort Worth info.com [http://www.dfwinfo.com]; arrow from Barry's on-line clip-art [http://www.barrysclipart.com].)
Jazz Music: the area served as a center of jazz music in the first half of the last century!
"Professor [I. M.] Terrell" ( - 1931). I. M. Terrell became Principal of the first 'colored' school East of downtown in 1882 (to the north; see link to map). Terrell ultimately became president of Prairie View A&M University. (Read more at http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/TT/fte56.html!)
Lucille Bishop Smith (1892-1985). Lucille Bishop Smith came to the neighborhood in 1912, began a 70-year cooking career, and set up her bakery and catering shop at 333 Evans Avenue. She also taught cooking and wrote cookbooks. Smith is considered Texas' first Afro-American businesswoman. Her famous chili biscuits have been served on American Airlines flights, and at the White House.
(Map shows the Evans & Rosedale Business and Cultural District.)
William "Gooseneck Bill" McDonald (1912-1950). The son of a former slave, McDonald is considered Texas' first Afro-American millionaire. He founded The Fraternal Bank and Trust Company, Texas' largest African-American-owned bank. (See http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/MM/fmc45.html for more!)