Dallas City Council Members Wednesday approved the location for a monument to the lynching of an African American man 139 years ago. According to historical records, the murder of William Allen Taylor occurred on the west side of the Trinity River near what is now the Commerce Street bridge from downtown. The monument will be placed on city-owned land at…
Dallas City Council Members Wednesday approved the location for a monument to the lynching of an African American man 139 years ago.
According to historical records, the murder of William Allen Taylor occurred on the west side of the Trinity River near what is now the Commerce Street bridge from downtown. The monument will be placed on city-owned land at the site in a community now ready to recognize the incident as an unjustified murder.
Ed Gray with the Dallas County Justice Initiative has been pursuing this and other Dallas lynching monuments. “Dallas is a great city but it also has a history in which we have not come to terms with racism and also with lynching,” Gray said.“We will recognize for the first time, for the first time, on the banks of the Trinity River where a man was executed, was lynched. But we do this not out of hatred. We do this not out of fear. But we do this out of love because this brings Dallas closer together,” Gray said.
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