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Fort Worth's Forgotten Lynching: In Search of Fred Rouse

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Fred Rouse III is helping to create a memorial to his grandfather, who was lynched in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1921. The memorial will turn what was once a Ku Klux Klan headquarters into the Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing. In a city that traditionally identifies itself with nostalgic legends, these efforts to commemorate the first Fred Rouse, Tarrant County's sole Black lynching victim, aim to reckon with the horror.

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Fort Worth's Forgotten Lynching: In Search of Fred Rouse

They burned his coat before they killed him. This was in Fort Worth, in 1921, during a strike at a packinghouse: A Black worker, excluded from the whites-only union, crossed the picket line. After his shift, he was confronted by white strikers. What I know of the story comes from century-old newspaper accounts that I suspect may have favored drama over accuracy; they say the man talked back to the picketers, was stabbed by one of them, and pulle…

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