By Steven Monacelli Over half a century ago, a coalition of activists, lawyers, religious leaders, elected officials and other prominent community members in Dallas banded together to end institutionalized racism and oppression first experienced under chatel slavery and later recodified into the Jim Crow Laws that drew red lines and meted out violent punishment based on the color of one’s skin. Under Jim Crow, a number of horrific lynchings occurred in the Dallas area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the 1940s and 1950s, a series of racist bombings of Black family owned homes rocked Dallas during
