Allen Brooks was a Black American man, c. 60 years old, who was lynched by a mob on March 3, 1910, in Dallas, Texas. Brooks had been accused of raping a young white girl, and on the day he was set to face trial at the Dallas County Courthouse, a large mob pulled him by rope out of a second-story window at the courthouse, dragged him to Elks Arch, and hanged him from a telephone pole. The site of Brooks' lynching was unmarked for 111 years until a nonprofit placed a historical marker in 2021. The organization, Remembering Black Dallas, planned activities and programs for local high school students, with scholarships that supports students writing on the history of racist violence and the Civil Rights movement in Dallas. Financial support for the marker and the scholarships was provided by the Equal Justice Initiative. Background Allen Brooks (born c. 1850) was a Black man who lived in Dallas, Texas. He worked as a handyman. In late February 1910, Brooks was accused of raping Mary Beuvens a two-and-a-half year old girl. He had been fixing her family's furnace when Mary went missing. Shortly afterwards, the two were found together. George Keaton Jr., the director of Remembering Black Dallas, told The New York Times that there was no proof to indicate that Brooks' was guilty. Brooks was taken to jail and formally indicted a day later. 200 people gathered by the jail the day after his indictment. While Brooks was initially held in the Dallas County jail, fears for his safety prompted the authorities to keep him in several jails outside the city limits. By early March, he was held in nearby Sherman, Texas. Lynching On March 3, 1910, Brooks was in the Dallas County Courthouse to face trial. As a crowd had already begun to gather before he arrived in Dallas, Brooks was sent to the courthouse's jury room. The courthouse was filled by 9:00 in the morning. Brooks' lawyer had only recently taken the casean earlier lawyer had quitand so the case was recessed, for thirty minutes while they consulted. At 10:00, the judge, R. B. Seay, heard a request to prolong the recess. By this point there were at least 1,000 people in the courthouse. A ladder was soon placed on the side of the building. Around 11:15, the mob forcibly attempted to overtake control of the proceedings, and fought