A few years ago, Jerry McCoy received a phone call from an unfamiliar number. On the other end of the line was Clive Siegle, a Richland College history...
McCoy lived in Little Egypt with his parents, Sandy and Iva McCoy, and his four siblings, George, Sandy Jr., Jo Ann and Gloria, until he was 18 years old, he told. In 1961, his family relocated from Little Egypt to Elm Thicket-Northpark. This move was in part because their family home, which Sandy McCoy Sr. built, had electricity but no running water, like most in Little Egypt.
For decades, this freedman’s town was just a memory. Then, in late May, it was permanently commemorated with a Texas state marker after years of work from Siegle, the McCoys and others.In 2015, Siegle, who lives a few blocks down from where Little Egypt used to be, and his colleague, anthropology professor Tim Sullivan, created a class at Richland College to research Little Egypt. Students conducted oral histories and field surveys to learn more about the old neighborhood.
A church pastor connected McCoy and Siegle, and a team of students headed to the McCoy family home in Elm Thicket-Northpark. Through this first interview with McCoy and his siblings, Siegle and his students began to reconstruct what Little Egypt used to look like and who used to live there. They set up more interviews with the Hills, the Dotsys and other Little Egypt descendants.
The marker was approved, and would be funded by the White Rock Rotary Club and the city of Dallas. But its installation was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.On May 20, more than 100 former residents of Little Egypt, current members of Egypt Chapel Baptist Church and others in the community came together to celebrate the permanent marker.
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