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A 2016 Dallas Observer article described J.L. Turner Sr.’s pioneering role. This article highlighted an event in 1921 in which Mr. Turner helped exonerate two African-American children wrongly accused of perpetrating a fire alarm hoax that led to the death of a fire department captain.

Joe Pappalardo, The Trailblazing Life of J.L. Turner Sr., One of Texas' First Black Attorneys, Dallas Observer, Mar. 24, 2016, at 1.