The Brief
- The Dallas Parks Department temporarily reinstalled the historical marker for Allen Brooks, a Black man lynched in 1910, four weeks after it was vandalized.
- Brooks was seized by a mob and hanged in downtown Dallas; no one was ever held responsible for his death.
- Police aren’t treating the vandalism as a hate crime, despite concerns from advocates, and full repairs are expected to take three more months.
DALLAS – The Dallas Parks Department was able to reinstall the vandalized historical marker memorializing the lynching of Allen Brooks in 1910.
The new marker is only a temporary fix until the damaged marker can be replaced.
Lynching of Allen Brooks
The backstory:
On March 3, 1910, Allen Brooks was lynched in Dallas.…