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Tragedy moved into the neighborhood a long time ago and never really left. In 1910, Allen Brooks, a 65-year-old Black man, was lynched in broad daylight in downtown Dallas. The crowd that gathered to watch him die swelled to an estimated 5,000. More than half a century later, on Nov. 22, 1963, a sniper firing a bolt-action rifle from a sixth-floor window …

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