Man Who Fought DISD Over Segregation Passes Away

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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Sam Tasby, a man forever tied to the fight against racial segregation in the Dallas Independent School District, has died.

Tasby filed a discrimination suit against DISD in 1970 because his children were required to ride a bus to an all-black school, instead of walking to their neighborhood school with white students.

The legal order to desegratate Dallas schools started with Tasby's case and the era to end the legacy of separate and unequal education lasted a little more than 30 years.

Today, there's a Sam Tasby Middle School.

His daughter told CBS11 Tasby had been fighting prostate cancer.

He was 93.

Mr. Tasby's funeral will be Saturday at Dallas' Concord Missionary Baptist Church at 1:00 p.m.

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