George Eugene Dawson, more commonly known as “ABDULLAH”, died September 15 at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Palo Alto, from complications of renal disease. Mr. Dawson was born and raised in ...

Dr. George Dawson passed from this life into the arms of his Lord and Savior surrounded by friends and family on March 28, 2023. Visitation with the family will be from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm on Friday, ...

You name a new school building after a man or woman, and decades later few remember who that person was. In the case of the late George Dawson of Dallas - he of George Dawson Middle School fame in ...

SOUTHLAKE, Texas - Carroll ISD in Southlake is reviewing sections of the book Life Is So Good, co-written by George Dawson to see if it is appropriate to teach at George Dawson Middle School. Dawson, ...

A Texas school district has deemed parts of a Black author's biography "not appropriate" for middle school students, even though one of the middle schools in the district is named after the writer.

Officials at a North Texas school named after a Black man who learned to read and write when he was 98 years old has ruled that a portion of his memoir describing his best friend getting lynched is ...

SOUTHLAKE, Texas — George Dawson was a lifelong Dallas resident, the grandson of a slave, and he didn’t learn to read until he was 98. He published his biography Life is So Good at more than a century ...

A book about the grandson of a slave who learned to read when he was 98 years old is currently under review for use in the school named after him in Southlake. The book, Life is So Good, tells the ...

George H. Dawson, 84, of Springfield, passed away on December 23, 2023 at Springfield Memorial Hospital. He was born on December 1, 1939 in Springfield to Clinton “Bud” Dawson and Eloise “Cissy” ...

Funeral service for George L. Dawson Sr., 69, of Mentor, will be 10 AM Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at Davis-Babcock Funeral Home, 4154 Clark Ave., Willoughby.Family will receive friends 5-8 PM Monday at ...