Ernie Banks ('Mr. Cub')
Theodis "Ted" Shine, Jr.
Ted Shine (1931 - 2018), often called “The Dean of Black Texas Playwrights," attended Booker T. Washington High School --Dallas's first African American high school. He graduated in 1948. From there he attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., and studied under Owen Dodson, a leading Black poet and dramaturg. He and classmate Toni Morrison collaborated and performed under Dodson's tutelage, and there his first play, Sho Is Hot in the Cotton Patch, was staged in 1951.
Otis Frank Boykin
On March 9, 2022, the nationwide acclaimed Booker T. Washington High School for the Visual and Performing Arts (formally Booker T. Washington High School) held a plaque dedication ceremony in recognition of Mr. Shine.
Curtis Cokes
Ernie Banks ('Mr. Cub')
William "Bill" Blair, Jr.
Mozell Jordan
Our first Miss Booket T.
(1941 - 1942)
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