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Brooks' death was pictured in a lynching postcard. Allen Brooks was a black American man who was lynched by a mob on March 3, 1910, in Dallas, Texas.Brooks, in his sixties, 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 ...
www.elks.org. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE; also often known as the Elks Lodge or simply The Elks) is an American fraternal order founded in 1868, originally as a social club in New York City. The communal tomb of Elks Lodge No. 30 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The fraternity currently focuses on Community, Friendship and Charity.
Mustangs of Las Colinas is a bronze sculpture by Robert Glen that decorates Williams Square in Las Colinas in Irving, Texas. [1] It portrays a group of nine wild mustangs at 1⁄2 times life size running through a watercourse. [2] Fountains give the effect of water splashed by the animals' hooves. The work was commissioned in 1976 and installed ...
Prescott, Arizona. Early Commercial architecture, [1] very prominent in the city. 4. BPOE Elks Club (Little Rock, Arkansas) 1908 built. 1982 NRHP-listed. 4th and Scott Sts. 34°44′44″N 92°16′9″W / 34.74556°N 92.26917°W / 34.74556; -92.26917 (BPOE Elks Club (Little Rock, Arkansas)) Little Rock, Arkansas.
The Fort Worth Elks Lodge 124, also known as Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is an organization founded in 1901, and it is also the name of its five-story building with elements of Georgian Revival architecture and of Spanish Renaissance Revival architecture that was built during 1927–28. It was purchased by the YWCA of Fort Worth and ...
The Improved Elks helped organize a convention on September 9, 1903, where the Daughters organized as a national organization, or "Grand Temple," and drew up a ritual, constitution and by-laws. A juvenile department was founded in 1907. [6] By 1913, there were forty-eight temples in existence. [4]
Harvey was born in Ogden, Ohio, a Quaker community in Clinton County, to William P. and Nancy M. Harvey. [1] He attended art school in the Art Academy of Cincinnati where he studied painting with Thomas Satterwhite Noble and sculpture with Louis Rebisso. In 1889 he moved to Paris where he continued his studies, with Lefebvre, Constant, Doucet ...
1926. Elks National Memorial and Headquarters. The Elks National Veterans Memorial (officially the Elks National Memorial and Headquarters Building[1]) is a Beaux Arts-style domed building at 2750 North Lakeview Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. It is across from Lincoln Park and close to the park's Goethe Monument and statue of Alexander Hamilton.