A fact from Elzie Odom appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 May 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Elzie Odom was the first black postal inspector in Texas, and the first black mayor of Arlington?
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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
Overall: (Offline references accepted in good faith.) Great work, Centehua! I know that this nomination does not meet the "newness" requirement (it was moved to the mainspace more than seven days before it was nominated for DYK), but this is Centehua's 2nd DYK nomination and it is a really good article, so I would like to ask to waive that requirement in this case. I really enjoyed reading the article. I've added the image to the DYK nomination and also provided an alternative hook that might be slightly more interesting. Once again, great work! Michael Barera (talk) 17:36, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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(Offline references accepted in good faith.) Great work, Centehua! I know that this nomination does not meet the "newness" requirement (it was moved to the mainspace more than seven days before it was nominated for DYK), but this is Centehua's 2nd DYK nomination and it is a really good article, so I would like to ask to waive that requirement in this case. I really enjoyed reading the article. I've added the image to the DYK nomination and also provided an alternative hook that might be slightly more interesting. Once again, great work! Michael Barera (talk) 17:36, 14 April 2020 (UTC)