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When Patricia Cox was a young girl, she would walk from her family’s home in the historic Tenth Street neighborhood of Dallas to Show Hill, a shopping center nearby that featured a laundromat, a barbecue joint, and the only movie house in Oak Cliff that Black folks could patronize at the time. On the floors above the cinema was a hotel that welcomed many famous Black entertainers. “I remember seeing Sammy Davis Jr. and Ike and Tina Turner,” Cox recalled recently, at age eighty. “I would be with my dad, who was a bartender at the Dallas Athletic Club, and he would say, ‘Honey, that’s so-and-so!’ ”Just south of the Trinity River floodplain, the Tenth Street community originated after the Civil War as a freedmen’s town…

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