On March 3, 1910, a mob of at least 3,000 white men lynched Allen Brooks, a 57-year-old Black American man, in downtown Dallas, Texas. Brooks was accused of raping a young white girl and was awaiting trial at the Dallas County Courthouse (now the Old Red Courthouse) when the mob broke in, seized him, and threw him from the second floor. Brooks’s skull was fractured on impact, and the mob then beat and kicked him before dragging him to the intersection of Main and Akard streets, where they strung him up on a telephone pole and lynched him. Around 5,000 people watched.
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