Junior League of Dallas

The league's work is easiest to see in its projects. In 1944 members recorded a radio program, and in 1947 a tuberculosis project offered free X-rays. In 1949 the league and the city council set up an occupational therapy workshop at Woodlawn Hospital. During the Depression its volunteers served 14,066 people in three months through the Salvation Army. The chapter began just two years after women won the vote, when few opportunities existed for women outside the home, and PaperCity calls it the oldest and largest training organization for women in Dallas.

What the plaque says

Junior League of Dallas In 1922, a group of ten civic-minded women formed the Dallas chapter of the Association of Junior Leagues. Eva O'Neill was voted the chapter's first president. Early charitable efforts focused on women and children. In response to economic challenges in the 1930s, the league concentrated efforts to assist the unemployed. During World War II, league members spearheaded war-related efforts in addition to regular service. In the 1950s, the league expanded its focus to include special education and juvenile mental health. For the past century, the league has partnered with local organizations and generously given volunteer hours, scholarships, grants and trained countless women for civic and charitable leadership in the Dallas area. (2022)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dallas Museum of Art — 4.6 mi
  A city art museum that began as the Dallas Art Association in 1903, grew up in Fair Park, and has stood in the Arts District since 1984 under a forty-foot barrel vault.
• The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza — 5.1 mi
  A plow-company warehouse of 1903, identified by the Warren Commission as the building Oswald fired from, now a museum on its sixth and seventh floors above Dealey Plaza.
• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — 5.7 mi
  Dallas's first city park, laid out around Browder's Spring in 1876, now a museum of historic buildings moved here from across North Texas, among them Millermore, a cotton planter's mansion.
• African American Museum, Dallas — 6.0 mi
  Founded in 1974 at Bishop College, a free Fair Park museum holding the Sepia photograph archive, African art and A. Maceo Smith's papers, and the story of the Hall of Negro Life.

More markers nearby

• Hilliard Memorial Golf Course — 1.1 mi
• Cochran Chapel Methodist Church — 1.1 mi
• Cochran Chapel Cemetery — 1.1 mi
• Preston Road — 1.5 mi