Tag Archives: Dallas to honor lynching victim as it confronts past racial violence at the Trinity River

Dallas is closer to confronting another ugly moment in its history of racial violence, this one dating back more than 138 years. That September night, the mob of vigilantes became more emboldened, its clamor for revenge at a fever pitch against the young Black man accused of assaulting a white woman at her Ross Avenue home. Sheriff William Smith knew young William …

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