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Spoke with @runandserve to learn more about what she is doing to bring back and amplify tennis to the wonderful community of Hamilton Park. 

Hamilton Park, originally an all-Black subdivision, is ten miles north of Main and Akard streets in downtown Dallas, Dallas County. Two developments usually are associated with the founding of Hamilton Park. In 1950 several Black residences in the South Dallas area were bombed. In a January 1953 bond election the decision to demolish housing in Black neighborhoods for the expansion of the municipal airport, Love Field, was approved. 

The subdivision was named for a Black civic leader and physician, Dr. Richard T. Hamilton. 

Big shoutout to Anderson Bonner, former slave and shrewd businessman!

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