Dallas adds historical marker to remember another lynching victim

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"We are commemorating a spirit. And that spirit lives in all of us and all of Dallas," said Ed Gray of the Dallas County Justice Initiative.DALLAS — William Allen Taylor was a 25-year-old Black man whose life ended along the banks of the Trinity River.

Accused of assaulting a white woman, he was moved to a jail in Waxahachie as word spread of a potential growing mob. Recorded accounts say that nine masked men grabbed him during a police transport. A mob of an estimated 400 gathered as he was lynched, hung from a tree along the Trinity.

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