160 Years Ago This Month, A Fire Engulfed Dallas.
When A Fire Destroyed Much Of Dallas In July 1860, City Leaders Blamed An Imagined Slave Rebellion For Its Spark. Mass Beatings And Hangings Followed.
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When A Fire Destroyed Much Of Dallas In July 1860, City Leaders Blamed An Imagined Slave Rebellion For Its Spark. Mass Beatings And Hangings Followed.
In 1860, Martyrs Park is where Patrick Jennings, Reverend Samuel Smith, and Cato Miller, three enslaved black men, were lynched.
Suspected brown sugar seized.
Fifty soap cases of brown sugar weighing 640 gram were found concealed below the seats of driver and co-driver of a vehicle.
Saturday’s ceremony was just the latest part of an effort to install public markers memorializing Black members of the Dallas community, like Taylor, whose...