Founded in the 1880s by former slaves, the community flourished until the 1960s.
Bill Zeeble / KERA News
From the 1880s to the early 1960a, the African American Freedmen's Community called Little Egypt was in this neighbodhood, at the corner of Thurgood and Shoreview in Dallas' Lake Highlands. It spread across 35 acres.
From KERA:
Texas is dotted with Freedmen’s communities — African-American neighborhoods that sprouted after the Civil War in the era of segregation. They range from Ellis Alley in San Antonio to the Fourth Ward in Houston to Deep Ellum in Dallas. Another one in Dallas that’s been nearly forgotten, Little Egypt, is getting a renewed look thanks to Richland College.
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