Dallas’ racist past must be remembered | Opinion
George Keaton Jr. , who has led the coalition of Dallas County volunteers who completed the Equal Justice Initiative's requirements to secure the historic marker, looks out of the second floor window of the Old Red Courthouse where Allen Brooks was thrown to the ground March 3, 1910.There were few people in Dallas who combined a gentle, loving spirit with a fierce determination so gracefully as George Keaton Jr. did.
Keaton’s death at 66 this week after a brief battle with cancer was a shock. Dallas has lost a champion of truth and history. “To speak to lynchings in Dallas, we know that they took place in this very city and a lot of people don’t realize that lynchings happened in the very space that we walk down each day,” he told us in an interview last year.Forgetting the past risks repeating it, and Keaton was intent on ensuring we don’t forget the name of Allen Brooks.
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