Finding Little Egypt
Author(s): Timothy L. Sullivan
Year: 2017
Summary
In May 1962, trucks and moving vans pulled into an African American community known as "Little Egypt" in northeast Dallas, Texas. Within a single day, the residents were packed up and moved out. Bulldozers swept in, making way for a commercial center, leaving little trace of the previous occupants. Who were they? Where did they go? What was their story?
In 2015, Dr. Tim Sullivan (Anthropology) and Dr. Clive Siegle(History) of Richland College (Dallas County Community College), combined their courses into a Learning Community for students to research the origins, history and lives of the inhabitants of this little known African American hamlet. Combining archival and genealogical research, oral history, cemetery survey and archaeology, the students have already turned up some interesting clues, informing us about this community and light it sheds on an overlooked dimension of Dallas history.
Cite this Record
Finding Little Egypt. Timothy L. Sullivan. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435598)
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Keywords
General
African American
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Genealogy
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learning communities
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Post Civil War, 20th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 721