thousand more in nearby Sherman and Denison. Elks Arch was taken down within a year of the lynching. In 2018 the Dallas City Council approved efforts to create a memorial. The nonprofit Remembering Black Dallas initially requested that the Dallas city government apply for a historical marker funded by the Equal Justice Initiative in December 2018, but November the following year applied for funding independently of the city. Remembering Black Dallas created a subsidiary group, the Dallas County Justice Initiative, to manage the project. The site of Brooks' lynching was unmarked for 111 years until the Dallas County Justice Initiative placed a marker in 2021, which was described as Dallas County's first such marker. Remembering Black Dallas also 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 scholarships was provided by the Equal Justice Initiative. Notes References Bibliography External links The Lynching of Allen Brooks and the Disappearance of the Elks Arch The day Allen Brooks was lynched in Dallas, police saved two other Black men from the mob Lynching in the United States Lynching deaths in Texas African-American history of Texas