With so much industry already in south Dallas, city officials didn’t notice even when it reached the height of a six-story building. “I got in my car and went out there,” said Tennell Atkins, the Black city council member of the district where the dump sits. The Dallas City Council recently approved a contract to remove Shingle Mountain. Last month, nearly two years after Jackson first complained, the Dallas City Council approved a $480,000 contract to remove Shingle Mountain. “The DCC decided who would be mayor, and they handpicked the city council from the 1930s certainly until the 1960s,” Phillips said.

Source: Washington Post November 16, 2020 16:18 UTC