Juanita J. Craft believed that ordinary people could make an extraordinary difference.
From her home in South Dallas, Mrs. Craft organized young people, challenged segregation, built coalitions, and helped advance civil and human rights throughout Dallas, Texas, and beyond. Her home became more than a residence. It was a gathering place, a classroom, a meeting space, and a launching point for change.
Today, the Juanita Craft Civil Rights House & Museum continues to connect people with that remarkable legacy. The historic home and its collections offer visitors an opportunity not only to learn about the past, but also to consider what courage, civic participation, and community leadership require of us today.
The Friends of Juanita Craft Civil Rights House & Museum helps ensure that Mrs. Craft’s life, work, and values continue to inspire action through preservation, education, public programming, civic dialogue, and community engagement.
This North Texas Giving Day, help us raise $15,000 to keep the legacy living.
A LEGACY OF COURAGE
ONE WOMAN. EXTRAORDINARY IMPACT.
Juanita J. Craft was one of Dallas’ most consequential civil rights leaders.
She was the first Black woman in Dallas County to vote in a public election and later became the second Black woman elected to the Dallas City Council.
For decades, Mrs. Craft worked to challenge segregation and expand opportunity. She helped organize NAACP youth councils throughout Texas and played an important role in efforts to desegregate universities, theaters, restaurants, lunch counters, and the State Fair of Texas.
But perhaps one of her greatest legacies was her investment in people, especially young people.
Mrs. Craft opened her home, shared what she knew, challenged others to participate, and helped cultivate generations of civic leaders.
Her life reminds us that meaningful change does not begin only in institutions.
Sometimes, it begins around a kitchen table.
WHY YOUR GIFT MATTERS
The Juanita Craft story belongs to all of us.
It is a story about courage.
It is a story about persistence.
It is a story about young people discovering their own power.
It is a story about neighbors gathering to decide that their community and their country could be better for all.
And it is a story that still has something to teach us.
Your North Texas Giving Day gift helps ensure that Juanita Craft’s legacy is not simply remembered, but experienced, discussed, preserved, and carried forward.
Every gift helps.
Whether you give $25, $50, $100, $250, $500, or more, you are joining a community committed to preserving this history and ensuring that it continues to inspire action.
Take Your Seat at the Table.
Juanita Craft demonstrated what one determined person, working alongside a community, could accomplish.
This North Texas Giving Day, we invite you to become part of that continuing story.
Help us raise $15,000 to preserve history, spark conversations, and inspire the courageous civic engagement that Mrs. Craft modeled throughout her life.
Every gift helps us preserve historeate meaningful conversations, and inspire the next generation of courageous civic leaders.
Give today. Keep the legacy living!
Juanita J. Craft was one of Dallas’ most consequential civil rights leaders. She was the first Black woman in Dallas County to vote in a public election and later became the second Black woman elected to the Dallas City Council.
For decades, Mrs. Craft challenged segregation, organized young people, and advocated for equality in education, public accommodations, health care, and civic life. Her work helped advance desegregation efforts at universities, the State Fair of Texas, Dallas theaters, restaurants, and lunch counters.
But perhaps one of her greatest legacies was her investment in people, especially young people whom she encouraged to discover their own power to create change.
Her home became a classroom for change. Her legacy still calls us to action.
The mission of the Friends of the Juanita J. Craft Civil Rights House and Museum is to inspire bold civic engagement globally by preserving and amplifying the life and legacy of human rights leader Juanita J. Craft through transformative education.
ONE CAMPAIGN. FOUR WAYS TO KEEP THE LEGACY ALIVE.
Our $15,000 North Texas Giving Day goal will help support:
CONVENE | Kitchen Table Talks
Creating opportunities for meaningful civic dialogue and community connection.
ENGAGE | Annual Programming
Providing educational, cultural, and community experiences throughout the year.
PRESERVE | Juanita Craft Oral History Project
Capturing and preserving firsthand stories connected to Mrs. Craft, South Dallas, and Dallas civil rights history.
PROTECT | Conservation of the Juanita Craft Collection
Supporting the care and preservation of historic materials so that they remain accessible for future generations.
Together, these investments allow the Friends to do more than preserve history.
They allow us to activate it.
Supporting equity, diversity, and inclusion is at the core of the Friends of Juanita Craft Civil Rights House & Museum.
We are committed to ensuring our efforts are culturally relevant, responsible, welcoming, and collaborative. We seek to create opportunities for people across generations, backgrounds, and experiences to learn from history, engage one another with dignity, and participate meaningfully in civic life.
Guided by Juanita Craft’s example, we believe that communities are strengthened when people recognize their own capacity to lead, advocate, build relationships, and advance the rights and well-being of others.
Organization name
Friends of Juanita Craft House & Museum
Tax id (EIN)
85-2986936
Causes
Arts & Humanities
Operating Budget
Less than $100,000
Counties Served
Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant
BIPOC Leadership
Board Chair
Address
2618 Warren Avenue