My grandparents rented half of a duplex in University Park instead of buying a house in an otherwise nice Dallas neighborhood in the 50s in order to send my mot

My grandparents rented half of a duplex in University Park instead of buying a house in an otherwise nice Dallas neighborhood in the 50s in order to send my mother and aunt to Highland Park schools when they first moved from Lubbock, on the advice of my grandfather's new colleagues - and this was long before Texas begrudgingly started de-segregating schools, so it's been that way for at least 70 years now.