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'''Dallas''' is the third largest city in [[Texas]], although as a metropolitan area with Fort Worth, Dallas is the fourth largest in the United States, with a population of 5,221,801<ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-CONTEXT=gct&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_GCTPH1_US25&-redoLog=false&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=&-format=US-10|US-10S&-_lang=en|2000 US Population by Metropolitan Area.]</Ref>.   
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'''Dallas''' is a major city, county, and metropolitan area in northeastern Texas; the city population in 2006 was 1,250,180. The county population was 2,346,000 in 2000. The Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area reached 6,145,000 million in 2007 after achieving the largest numeric gain of any metro area in the U.S. between 2006 and 2007, increasing by 162,250. Only New York, Los Angeles and Chicago metro areas were larger, while Houston came next after Dallas. <ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-CONTEXT=gct&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_GCTPH1_US25&-redoLog=false&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=&-format=US-10|US-10S&-_lang=en|2000 US Population by Metropolitan Area.]</Ref>.   
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The city's economy is also supported by many technology firms, universities and colleges and cultural venues. <ref>[http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/DD/hdd1.htm| Handbook of Texas]</Ref>
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The city's economy is supported by many technology firms, universities and colleges and cultural venues. <ref>[http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/DD/hdd1.htm| Handbook of Texas]</Ref>
    
==History==
 
==History==
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Women of color usually operated separately. Juanita Craft (1902-85) was a leader in the civil rights movement through the Dallas NAACP. She focused on working with black youths, organizing them as the vanguard in protests against segregation practices in Texas.<ref> Stefanie Decker, "Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Juanita Craft Versus the Dallas Elite." ''East Texas Historical Journal'' 2001 39(1): 33-42. Issn: 0424-1444 </ref>
 
Women of color usually operated separately. Juanita Craft (1902-85) was a leader in the civil rights movement through the Dallas NAACP. She focused on working with black youths, organizing them as the vanguard in protests against segregation practices in Texas.<ref> Stefanie Decker, "Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Juanita Craft Versus the Dallas Elite." ''East Texas Historical Journal'' 2001 39(1): 33-42. Issn: 0424-1444 </ref>
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[[Image:Dallas-1905rr.jpg|thumb|650ppx|Dallas-Ft. Worth area in 1905; the solid line is the inter-urban trolley]]
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[[Image:Dallas-1905rr.jpg|thumb|550ppx|Dallas-Ft. Worth area in 1905; the solid line is the inter-urban trolley]]
    
==Dallas Sports Franchises ==
 
==Dallas Sports Franchises ==
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