Civil rights icon Opal Lee received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from SMU at the university’s May 11 commencement ceremony.
DALLAS — Residents in South Dallas expressed their discontent with city leaders on Wednesday that signs bearing the namesake of late civic leader“I am here on behalf of the People’s Missionary Baptist Church … to express our profound disappointment and confusion about the removal of S.M. Wright street signs from a section of Highway 310 that runs through our community — a community that Dr. S.M.
S.M. Wright pastored the People's Missionary Baptist Church in South Dallas from 1957 until he died in 1994. His son, S.M. Wright II, became the church pastor in 1993. Dr. Tommy Brown, pastor of New Mount Zion Baptist Church, was at the street naming celebration in June 1995. "We stand today as watchmen of this city, applauding you for the action you're taking and we trust you'll do what you say you'll do, in righting this wrong," Brown added.to “transform” the S.M. Wright Freeway into a six-lane boulevard with traffic signals.
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