Idotha "Bootsie" Neal (September 9, 1952 [1] – January 24, 2021) [2] was a politician and developer in Dayton, Ohio and a member of the Democratic Party.
Born in Newbern, Alabama, she grew up in Buffalo, New York. [1] In 1991, she became the first African-American woman elected to Dayton's city commission, on which she served until 2004. Since then, she worked on redevelopment of Dayton's historic urban neighborhoods. [3]
She served until 2014 as president of an organization dedicated to Wright-Dunbar, the historical Dayton neighborhood that was the site of the Wright Brothers' bicycle shop and the birthplace of the African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. [4]
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Idotha "Bootsie" Neal (September 9, 1952 [1] – January 24, 2021) [2] was a politician and developer in Dayton, Ohio and a member of the Democratic Party.
Born in Newbern, Alabama, she grew up in Buffalo, New York. [1] In 1991, she became the first African-American woman elected to Dayton's city commission, on which she served until 2004. Since then, she worked on redevelopment of Dayton's historic urban neighborhoods. [3]
She served until 2014 as president of an organization dedicated to Wright-Dunbar, the historical Dayton neighborhood that was the site of the Wright Brothers' bicycle shop and the birthplace of the African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. [4]
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