L.A. Nixon Elementary School
August 20, 2026
El Paso school officials in 1991 voted unanimously to name the new North Hills elementary school for Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon, a pioneering Black physician and civil-rights figure whose legal challenge helped dismantle racial barriers to voting in Texas. Nixon, born in 1884 in Marshall, Texas…
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