Editor’s note: “The Deep Side of Dallas” is hosted by deputy editorials editor Rudy Bush and the University of North Texas System’s Paul Corliss. The show explores the past, present and future of the city of Dallas, including its culture, politics, history and development.
In This Episode
From the time of its settlement after the Civil War, Deep Ellum has been a place of commerce and art, rich with the history of Black Dallas and the Texas blues. It was a place where lines of segregation were blurred and where immigrants, often Jewish people from Eastern Europe, set up stores and other businesses. With a night life came violence. Deep Ellum today is changing, largely because it is becoming what it never really was — a residential place. But its past remains ever with it. The question is, what will Deep Ellum become?
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