Re-claiming Women’s History — Still
At a meeting at the Dallas Public Library one day, a retired chief executive explained to me his vision for a permanent display on a soon-to-be-renovated floor honoring the men who built up the city’s downtown after World War II.
I looked at him skeptically. “What about the women?”
“There aren’t any,” he snapped back.
Of course there were! But because a group of white men controlled politics in the city for decades, few people know them.… more