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6. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, March 17, 2010.
7. “Emil Fretz Funeral to Be Held Thursday,” Dallas Morning News, October 18, 1928.
8. “Carl Wiesemann Club Is Organized,” Dallas Morning News, January 17, 1931.
9. “To Wed in June,” Dallas Morning News, April 23, 1933.
10. “A. E. Tomlinson Weds Miss Fretz In Chapel Rites,” Dallas Morning News, June 9, 1933.
11. Marlin Bicentennial Heritage Committee, Marlin 1851–1976 (Marlin, TX: Marlin Chamber of Commerce, 1976), 177.
12. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, May 28, 2008.
13. Margaret Milam, “Dallas Journey’s End for Many Out-of-Towners,” Dallas Morning News, July 21, 1938.
14. Flippen-Prather advertisement, Dallas Morning News, September 1, 1940.
15. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, May 28, 2008.
16. Old Settlers and Veterans Association of Falls County, Texas, History of Falls County, Texas, ed. Roy Eddins (Marlin, TX: Old Settlers and Veterans Association of Falls County, Texas, 1947), 239.
17. “J. M. Kennedy, Publisher of Marlin, Dies,” Dallas Morning News, April 20, 1942.
18. “Quiet Reunion Marks Fiftieth Anniversary,” Dallas Morning News, January 23, 1942.
19. Death certificate for R. E. L. Tomlinson, January 27, 1943, Falls County Clerk’s Office, Marlin, TX.
20. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, May 28, 2008.
21. Alwyn Barr, Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528–1995 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996), 197.
22. “Texas, Deaths, 1890–1976,” at https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KSBB-2HH (accessed August 21, 2012. Certificate 32086).
23. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, March 2010.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Author’s interview with Sarah Lee Tomlinson, March 18, 2010.
27. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, March 17, 2010.
28. Author’s interview with Sarah Lee Tomlinson.
29. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson.
30. Author’s interview with Sarah Lee Tomlinson.
31. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson.
32. “Mrs. R. E. L. Tomlinson Dies Here Saturday, Funeral Monday A.M.,” Marlin Democrat, August 13, 1951.
33. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, May 28, 2008.
34. Ken Hand, “Miss Jacobs to Head Bank,” Dallas Morning News, May 6, 1955.
35. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, March 17, 2010.
36. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, May 28, 2008.
37. Author’s, interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, September 10, 2012.
38. Author’s, interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, March 17, 2010.
39. Ibid.
40. Michael Phillips, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Dallas, 1841–2001 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006), 102.
41. Ibid., 104.
42. Barr, Black Texans, 147.
43. “Negroes Stage Big Juneteenth at Centennial,” Dallas Morning News, June 20, 1936.
44. Barr, Black Texans, 171.
45. Phillips, White Metropolis, 116.
46. Ibid.
47. “Colored Gentry to Celebrate June 19 with Cab Calloway,” Dallas Morning News, June 16, 1936.
48. Barr, Black Texans, 172.
49. “Negroes Stage Big Juneteenth at Centennial,” Dallas Morning News.
50. Phillips, White Metropolis, 116.
51. Ibid., 107.
52. Ibid., 110.
53. Marlin Bicentennial Heritage Committee, Marlin 1851–1976, 92.
54. Barr, Black Texans, 142–43.
55. Phillips, White Metropolis, 116.
56. Ibid., 117.
57. Ibid., 120.
58. Barr, Black Texans, 173–74.
59. Phillips, White Metropolis, 116.
60. Barr, Black Texans, 175.
61. Ibid., 199.
62. Phillips, White Metropolis, 106.
63. Ibid., 120.
64. Barr, Black Texans, 177.
65. Ibid., 207.
66. Ibid., 207–08.
67. Phillips, White Metropolis, 122.
CHAPTER 17
1. Author’s interview with Charles Tomlinson, September 21–22, 2012.
2. Author’s interview with Robert Stem, state district court judge for Falls County, Texas, May 9, 2010.
3. Author’s interview with Charles Tomlinson.
4. Ibid.
5. Author’s interview with Robert Stem.
6. Lillian Schiller St. Romain, Western Falls County, Texas (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1951), 112.
7. Thomas E. Turner, “Sheriff and Dog: Friendly, Tough,” Dallas Morning News, September 24, 1966.
8. Author’s interview with Frank Wyman, June 10, 2012.
9. Marlin Bicentennial Heritage Committee, Marlin 1851–1976 (Marlin, TX: Marlin Chamber of Commerce, 1976), 89.
10. Ibid., 201.
11. Author’s interview with Charles Tomlinson.
12. Author’s interview with Lizzie Mae Tomlinson Scott, June 10, 2012.
13. Interview by Lisa Kaselak with Anna Steele, February 26, 2012.
14. Author’s interview with Charles Tomlinson.
15. Interview by Tamela Jackson with Frank Wyman.
16. Ibid.
17. Author’s interview with Lizzie Mae Tomlinson Scott.
18. Author’s interview with Lonnie Garrett, June 15, 2009.
19. Author’s interview with Frank Wyman.
20. “Texas, Deaths, 1890–1976,” at https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/LC26-40M (accessed August 22, 2012. Certificate 54603).
21. Michael Phillips, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Dallas, 1841–2001. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006), 153.
22. Harvey Bogen and Mike Quinn, “Court Order Closes Dallas NAACP Office,” Dallas Morning News, September 23, 1956.
23. “Texas Suit Uncovers NAACP,” Dallas Morning News, October 10, 1956.
24. Phillips, White Metropolis, 153.
25. Alwyn Barr, Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528–1995 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996), 206–09.
26. Phillips, White Metropolis, 152.
27. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, September 10, 2012.
28. Ibid.
29. “Dallas Aggie Rolls a ‘300,’” Dallas Morning News, October 11, 1959.
30. The Associated Press, “Texas A&M Pin Team Sets Pace,” Dallas Morning News, December 14, 1959.
31. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson.
32. Phillips, White Metropolis, 155.
33. Ibid., 156.
34. “Conkling’s 629 Paces Dallasites,” Dallas Morning News, April 9, 1960.
35. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson.
36. “New Titles,” Dallas Morning News, April 7, 1961.
37. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson.
38. “Edna Ward Marries in Arlington,” Dallas Morning News, June 18, 1961.
39. “Tomlinson Rolls 300 at Jupiter,” Dallas Morning News, March 10, 1963.
40. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson.
41. Barr, Black Texans, 220.
42. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, March 17, 2010.
43. Ibid.
44. Ibid.
45. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, May 28, 2008.
46. Phillips, White Metropolis, 158.
47. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson.
48. “Welcome, Mr. Kennedy,” Dallas Morning News, November 22, 1963.
49. Phillips, White Metropolis, 158.
50. Harless Wade, “State Match Games Near,” Dallas Morning News, December 3, 1964.
51. Harless Wade, “Once They ‘Struck�
�� for Goodness,” Dallas Morning News, November 4, 1964.
52. Harless Wade, “Young Keglers Top Teams,” Dallas Morning News, May 16, 1965.
53. “Two Share Spotlight as Match Games Roll,” Dallas Morning News, July 26, 1965.
54. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, March 17, 2010.
55. Harless Wade, “Local Bowling Stars Honored,” Dallas Morning News, May 22, 1966.
56. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, September 10, 2012.
57. Phillips, White Metropolis, 156.
58. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson.
59. Barr, Black Texans, 208.
60. Phillips, White Metropolis, 157.
61. Ibid., 158.
62. Barr, Black Texans, 209–10.
63. Ibid., 210.
64. Ibid., 212.
65. Author’s interview with Oliver Terry Tomlinson, Jr., September 25, 2012.
66. Author’s interview with Robert Stem.
67. Author’s interview with Oliver Terry Tomlinson, Jr.
68. Author’s interview with Loreane Tomlinson, June 24, 2012.
69. U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1948 Census for Falls County, Texas, film T627_4030j, p. 7A, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT.
70. Author’s interview with Oliver Terry Tomlinson, Jr.
71. Loreane Tomlinson, with Patti M. Britton and Ginger Kolbaba, LT & Me: What Raising a Champion Taught Me about Life, Faith, and Listening to Your Dream (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2009), 29.
72. Author’s interview with Robert Stem.
73. Author’s interview with Oliver Terry Tomlinson, Jr.
74. Author’s interview with J. C. Williams, July 27, 2010.
75. Author’s interview with Frank Wyman, June 10, 2012.
76. Author’s interview with J. C. Williams.
77. Turner, “Sheriff and Dog: Friendly, Tough.”
78. Barr, Black Texans, 187.
79. Ibid., 196–97.
CHAPTER 18
1. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, September 10, 2012.
2. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, March 17, 2010.
3. Ibid.
4. “Urban Design Process Women Voters’ Topic,” Dallas Morning News, February 8, 1971.
5. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, September 10, 2012.
6. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, March 17, 2010.
7. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, September 10, 2012.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ruthe Winegarten, Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph (Austin: Universty of Texas Press, 1995), 276.
15. Michael Phillips, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Dallas, 1841–2001 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006), 167.
16. Ibid., 164.
17. Ibid.
18. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Mark Seibel, “Board Approves Student Assignment Plan,” Dallas Morning News, March 23, 1976.
23. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson.
24. Ibid.
CHAPTER 19
1. Author’s interview with Lonnie Garrett, June 15, 2009.
2. Ibid.
3. Interview by Lisa Kaselak with Anna Steele, February 26, 2012.
4. Ibid.
5. Author’s interview with Lonnie Garrett.
6. Alwyn Barr, Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528–1995 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996), 243.
7. Ibid., 230.
8. Author’s interview with Frank Wyman, June 10, 2012.
9. Marlin Bicentennial Heritage Committee, Marlin 1851–1976 (Marlin, TX: Marlin Chamber of Commerce, 1976), 74.
10. Author’s interview with Oliver Terry Tomlinson, Jr., September 25, 2012.
11. Loreane Tomlinson, with Patti M. Britton and Ginger Kolbaba, LT & Me: What Raising a Champion Taught Me about Life, Faith, and Listening to Your Dreams (Carol Stream, IL. Tyndale House, 2009), 27.
12. Death Certificate for Vincent Tomlinson, June 13, 1971, Temple, Texas.
13. Tomlinson, LT & Me, 30.
14. Author’s interview with Oliver Terry Tomlinson, Jr.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Jim Lewis, “Anthrax Weakens Pocket, Spirit in Central Texas,” Dallas Morning News, July 21, 1974.
18. Frank X. Tolbert, “‘Lead Belly’ Walks a Street in Marlin,” Dallas Morning News, November 16, 1974.
19. Ibid.
20. Marlin Bicentennial Heritage Committee, Marlin 1851–1976, 82.
21. Author’s interview with Oliver Terry Tomlinson, Jr.
22. Tomlinson, LT & Me, 29.
23. Author’s interview with Londria Tomlinson, June 24, 2012.
24. Author’s interview with Loreane Tomlinson, June 24, 2012.
25. Author’s interview with Londria Tomlinson.
26. Ibid.
27. Author’s interview with Loreane Tomlinson.
28. Tomlinson, LT & Me, 45.
29. Ibid., 47.
30. Author’s interview with Londria Tomlinson.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Author’s interview with Oliver Terry Tomlinson, Jr.
34. Texas Department of Public Safety, “Tomlinson, Oliver Terry, Jr.,” SID: 02073002, criminal history search, Austin, TX, 2012.
35. Texas Department of Public Safety, “McClain, Ronald Carl,” SID: 02442756, criminal history search, Austin, TX, 2012.
36. Texas Department of Public Safety, “McClain, Charles Allen,” SID: 03263867, criminal history search, Austin, TX, 2012.
37. Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: New Press, 2010), 59–87.
38. Marlin Bicentennial Heritage Committee, Marlin 1851–1976, 201.
39. Kent Biffle, “Tempers in Falls Rise Over Sheriff’s Controversy,” Dallas Morning News, December 12, 1976.
40. United Press International, “Marijuana Seizure Announced,” Dallas Morning News, February 11, 1977.
41. Carlton Stowers, “HEW’s Review Perplexes Marlin,” Dallas Morning News, February 16, 1977.
42. Ibid.
43. Barr, Black Texans, 239.
44. Ibid., 240.
45. Ibid., 234–35.
46. Ibid., 235.
47. Ibid., 245.
CHAPTER 20
1. Michael Phillips, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Dallas, 1841–2001 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006), 167.
2. Lloyd Grove, Doug Domeier, and Dan Watson. “40 Klansmen March in Dallas,” Dallas Morning News, November 4, 1979.
3. Ibid.
4. Author’s interview with Robert L. Tomlinson, September 10, 2012.
CHAPTER 21
1. Author’s interview with Loreane Tomlinson, June 24, 2012.
2. Author’s interview with Oliver Terry Tomlinson, Jr., September 25, 2012.
3. Author’s interview with Loreane Tomlinson.
4. Author’s interview with Oliver Terry Tomlinson, Jr.
5. Ibid.
6. Author’s interview with Loreane Tomlinson.
7. Author’s interview with LaDainian Tomlinson, January 15, 2013.
8. Ibid.
9. Loreane Tomlinson, with Patti M. Britton and Ginger Kolbaba, LT & Me: What Raising a Champion Taught Me about Life, Faith, and Listening to Your Dreams (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2009), 43.
10. Ibid., 52.
11. Author’s interview with LaDainian Tomlinson.
12. Author’s interview with Londria Tomlinson, June 24, 2012.
13. Author’s interview with Loreane Tomlinson.
14. Author’s interview with LaDainian Tomlinson.
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16. Author’s interview with Loreane Tomlinson.
17. Tomlinson, LT & Me, 44.
18. Ibid., 45.
19. Author’s interview with Loreane Tomlinson.
20. Tomlinson, LT & Me, 48.
21. Author’s interview with LaDainian Tomlinson.
22. Tomlinson, LT & Me, 52.
23. Alwyn Barr, Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528–1995. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996), 236–37, 244.
24. Tomlinson, LT & Me, 54.
25. Author’s interview with LaDainian Tomlinson.
26. Author’s interview with LaVar Tomlinson, November 7, 2012.
27. Tomlinson, LT & Me, 55.
28. See http://www.popwarner.com/About_Us.htm (accessed September 27, 2012).
29. Author’s interview with LaDainian Tomlinson.
30. Tomlinson, LT & Me, 56.
31. Author’s interview with LaVar Tomlinson.
32. Author’s interview with LaDainian Tomlinson.
33. Author’s interview with LaVar Tomlinson.
34. Author’s interview with Oliver Terry Tomlinson, Jr.
35. Author’s interview with Loreane Tomlinson.
36. Author’s interview with Londria Tomlinson.
37. Author’s interview with LaDainian Tomlinson.
38. Author’s interview with Oliver Terry Tomlinson, Jr.
39. Author’s interview with Loreane Tomlinson.
40. Author’s interview with Oliver Terry Tomlinson, Jr.
41. Tomlinson, LT & Me, 73.
42. Barr, Black Texans, 235–36.
43. Ibid., 232.
44. Ibid., 233–34.
45. Tomlinson, LT & Me, 60.
46. Ibid., 63.
CHAPTER 23
1. Author’s interview with LaDainian Tomlinson, January 15, 2013.
2. Ibid.
3. Loreane Tomlinson, with Patti M. Britton and Ginger Kolbaba, LT & Me: What Raising a Champion Taught Me about Life, Faith, and Listening to Your Dreams (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2009), 89.
4. Tomlinson, LT & Me, 90.
5. Tomlinson, LT & Me, 103.
6. Author’s interview with LaDainian Tomlinson.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Tomlinson, LT & Me, 106.
12. Author’s interview with LaDainian Tomlinson.
13. Tomlinson, LT & Me, 103.
14. Ibid., 118.
15. Alwyn Barr, Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528–1995 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996), 241–42.
16. Tomlinson, LT & Me, 125.