A Message from EDS President Elmer Dixon

A Message from EDS President Elmer Dixon

I often tell people that when I travel abroad to Europe that I feel more comfortable and welcomed than I do in my home country. This is because Europeans, for the most part, don’t bear the scars and experiences of American racism. Not that racism doesn’t exist in...
Elmer Dixon Portrait among “Seattle Icons”

Elmer Dixon Portrait among “Seattle Icons”

An anonymous donor commissioned Seattle Artist Adrienne La Faye to paint portraits of “black icons of the past” to exhibit around Seattle, and brothers Aaron and Elmer Dixon were front center in the exhibit of her work as well as in the history of the civil rights...