The Fort Worth City Council approved funding Tuesday for the Mr. Fred Rouse Memorial — recognizing the only documented Black person to be lynched in Fort Worth.
The resolution was a unanimous vote to allocate $232,377 in Community Partnership funds to support the final funding needs for the project.
On Dec. 11, 1921, Fred Rouse was lynched at the corner of Northeast 12th Street and Samuels Avenue by a white mob. The Mr. Fred Rouse Memorial will be constructed at 1000 NE 12th Street, in the Riverside Gardens neighborhood…