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Dallas Home Of Kathlyn Gilliam To Become Landmark

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DALLAS (AP) - Plans are underway to turn the home of a late Dallas civil rights leader whose involvement in education spanned decades into a museum and learning center.

The home of Kathlyn Gilliam was made a city of Dallas landmark in November.

Gilliam became the first black woman on the Dallas school board in 1974 and the first black board president in 1980.

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