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By Richard Croxdale | The Rag Blog | June 2, 2024
[Originally posted May 28, 2024, in the People’s History in Texas Substack and cross-posted to The Rag Blog.]
Doyle Niemann passed on May 1 of this year in Maryland. Doyle worked on The Rag in Austin, Space City! in Houston, and the The Great Speckled Bird in Atlanta. In Prince George’s County, Maryland, Doyle was a school board member, Mount Rainier City County Member, Maryland state delegate, health care advocate, and an Assistant State’s Attorney for Prince George’s County. As the representative for District 47 in the Maryland House of Delegates for three terms, Doyle was a champion for progressive values, equality, social justice, and environmental protection.
People’s History in Texas (PHIT) interviewed Doyle at the Rag Reunion in 2005 as part of our three-part documentary on The Rag. He was a delightful interview. Doyle was insightful and funny and an acute observer of his times. I wish I had gotten to Austin earlier, so that I could have met Doyle earlier in my life. Doyle was a good person. He will be missed. PHIT is happy to have collected his stories of his time in Austin.