Juanita Craft
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Juanita Craft was an American activist and politician. Craft was an activist in the civil rights movement and also served as a member of the Dallas City Council in Texas.
Craft during her tenure as a city council member in Dallas, Texas, 1976.
Adolphus Hotel
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The Adolphus Hotel is a historic upscale hotel established in 1912 in the Main Street District of Downtown Dallas, Texas. A Dallas Landmark, it was for several years the tallest building in the state.
Juanita Craft
…View, Craft moved back to Austin, Texas and received her teaching certificate from Samuel Huston College. By 1925, Craft was working as a maid at the Adolphus Hotel and later as a seamstress. Craft joined the NAACP in 1935, eventually becoming the Dallas NAACP membership chairman in 1942 and the Texas NAACP field…
Hotel Adolphus in 2009
Oriental Hotel, Dallas, 1893
Front entrance
Exterior of the French Room at the Adolphus