The Juanita Craft House

The Great Texas State Fair & Dallas Exposition -predecessor of the current State Fair of Texas – opens in 1889 and soon thereafter establishes “Colored People’s Day” (also referred to as “Negro Day”) for which Booker T. Washington gives the keynote address in 1900. In the patchwork racial apartheid of fin-de-siècle Dallas, African-Americans can still access most of the Fairgrounds.