Charlye Ola Farris was selected to serve as county judge in Wichita County, Texas making her the first black person to serve as a judge in the south since reconstruction. Farris was born in Wichita Falls, TX. Both her parents were educators, her father was the first African-American school superintendent in Texas (Woodland Consolidated School […]
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