Here’s one of the huge puppets that made an appearance in today’s free Parade of Giants on Dallas’s Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge over the Trinity River. Created by artists as part of the Bridge-o-Rama celebration, the puppets honored 15 people who had a big impact on West Dallas. This one depicts Harold Barefoot Sanders Jr., the federal district judge who oversaw the lawsuit that desegregated the Dallas Independent School District. As a representative in the Texas House earlier in his career, Sanders also sponsored legislation creating the Trinity River Authority. While the puppet (on display here post-parade off Singleton Avenue) shows him shoeless, Sanders actually got his distinctive middle name from his grandmother, Dennie Barefoot. The legendary judge died in 2008.
