Saturday’s ceremony was just the latest part of an effort to install public markers memorializing Black members of the Dallas community, like Taylor, whose…
“On September 12, 1884, a mob of at least 400 young and old white men and women lynched a 25-year-old black man named William Allen Taylor at this very same site,” said Ed Gray at a podium.
In 1884, hundreds hung Taylor after he was accused of assaulting a white woman, even as he declared his innocence. “It shouldn’t have taken this long, but it’s here now. It’s a good education, a good showing that we do understand history, and we don’t want this to happen again,” said Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Tennell Atkins.
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