Tueria Dell Marshall

Marshall's teaching ran well past the school day. In 1927 he organized the Wiley Extension School, then started evening classes for adults at B. F. Darrell School. At Lincoln he introduced typing, shorthand and automobile repair, and he accepted a trainer plane from the Regular Fellows Club to teach aviation mechanics. He chaired the education committee of the Moorland YMCA and the Negro Division of the March of Dimes. After retiring from Lincoln in 1955 he directed the Dallas-Wiley Extension Center, and in 2009 he entered the African-American Educators Hall of Fame as the community's father of higher education.

What the plaque says

Tueria Dell Marshall (1883-1960) A native of Texas, Tueria Dell Marshall attended Wiley College and Prairie View Normal. He became a teacher in Dallas and worked at several schools before being named principal of Lincoln, the city's second high school for African American students, in 1939. He served in that capacity until retirement in 1955. In addition to education work, T.D. Marshall co-founded the Dallas Star Post, a weekly newspaper, and organized Wiley College Extension School. He died in 1960 and was buried in this cemetery, near his beloved Lincoln High, but the exact location of his grave is now unknown. Recorded – 2005

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• African American Museum, Dallas — 1.9 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.
• Fair Park — 1.9 mi
  The State Fair of Texas grounds since 1886, where the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition left one of the country's greatest concentrations of Art Deco exposition buildings.
• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — 2.6 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.
• Dallas Museum of Art — 3.7 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.

More markers nearby

• Lincoln High School — steps away
• John C. McCoy — 0.7 mi
• General Richard M. Gano (C.S.A.) — 0.7 mi
• Salem Institutional Baptist Church — 0.9 mi