School namesakes and leaders and outstanding graduates are being honored as part of the Northside ISD School Museum's Black History Month exhibit.
This is the first exhibit about the District's black heritage at the Museum, which opened in 2006.
"Somebody said at the first of the year that we should feature Northside's black history, and suddenly this exhibit took shape," said Patricia Blattman, President of the Northside School Museum Association.
The exhibit highlights Northside's six black school namesakes (four of whom are former teachers) including: Nellie Reddix, Evelyn Scarborough, Thomas Hatchett, Dolores Linton, Mary Michael, and Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson.
Others who are recognized include Holmes High School alumni Dr. Bruce Reddix, an expert in neonatal medicine, and Priest Holmes, former running back for the Kansas City Chiefs, and current Board of Trustees members Annie Holmes and Robert Blount, Jr.
The exhibit also pays homage to the first black school started at the Paradise Cove Beer Hall in 1931.
The exhibit is available for school field trips and is free and open to the public. Exhibit hours are 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays through Feb. 29 at the School Museum, 6632 Bandera Road. Please call (210) 397-8599 for Saturday hours.
Located in the restored Leon Valley School built in 1924, the Northside ISD School Museum attempts to preserve the history of the original 12 rural schools that consolidated to create what is now Texas' fourth largest school system.
