[Mica England holds up Equal Employment Opportunity poster]

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Photograph of Mica England speaking in front of the Dallas City Council in Dallas City Hall and holding up an Equal Employment Opportunity poster. The poster reads, in part, "Equal Employment Opportunity is...THE LAW."

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Creator: Unknown. July 12, 1989.

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Photograph of Mica England speaking in front of the Dallas City Council in Dallas City Hall and holding up an Equal Employment Opportunity poster. The poster reads, in part, "Equal Employment Opportunity is...THE LAW."

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1 photograph : col.

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  • Preferred Citation: Mica England Collection (The Dallas Way), UNT Special Collections

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Mica England Collection (The Dallas Way)

Legal documents, correspondence, a press release, newspaper articles, a press kit, photographs, and a video related to Mica England's anti-discrimination lawsuit against the Dallas Police Department (DPD): England v. The City of Dallas, Mack Vines, and the State of Texas. On July 10, 1989, England was denied employment with the DPD because she was a lesbian.

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The Dallas Way Collections

The Dallas Way Collections contains materials from over 30 different archival collections contributed by The Dallas Way.

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Publications pertaining to issues relevant to the LGBT community. The collection includes The Dallas Voice, a weekly newspaper for the gay community in North Texas that has been published since 1984.

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  • July 12, 1989

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[Mica England holds up Equal Employment Opportunity poster], photograph, July 12, 1989; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1634426/: accessed June 13, 2025), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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