Newsletter – From Amelia Earhart to Career Institute West: A new chapter for West Dallas schools

By: Keri Mitchell

Outlets: Dallas Free Press

Published: August 20, 2025

Words: 733

Last Updated: 11 months, 1 week ago

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As a child, Patricia Stephens walked past the Amelia Earhart school every day.

She lived just west of the school on Gallagher Street, in the Westmoreland Heights neighborhood, but in the late ’50s and ’60s, only white students could attend Amelia Earhart. So Stephens and other Black …

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