The history of lynching in Dallas and how it shaped the city

Welcome to the debut episode of our podcast, The Deep Side of Dallas, hosted by Assistant Editor-in-Chief Rudy Bush and Paul Corliss of the University of North Texas System. Every second Thursday on the Dallas Morning News podcast feed, this show will explore the past, present and future of the city of Dallas, including its culture, politics, history and development.

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In this episode

Dr. George Keaton, the head of Remembering Black Dallas, poses for a portrait in Martyr’s Park in downtown Dallas on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. (Lynda M. González / photographer)

Hosts and historian George Keaton delve into the terrible history of lynching in Dallas, the murder of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin, and the fear so many black Americans have suffered for generations. Little to many in Dallas have a clue that the Ku Klux Klan once ruled the local government and that black residents were killed by mob violence on downtown streets.

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