DALLAS — From Shane Allen’s window, he has a clear view of Downtown Dallas’ Pegasus Plaza at Main and Akard.
It’s not just the traffic that makes the intersection busy. It’s also where the past and present meet.
In 1910, a Black man named Allen Brooks was lynched at the intersection after being accused of raping a white woman. A 1910 postcard showing a picture of the lynching was taken after a mob threw Brooks out a second-story window at the Old Red Courthouse. The mob then dragged him to Main and Akard, where they hanged him…