The empty shell of 1012 N. Main Street, a former Ku Klux Klan meeting hall that is set to become an art and racial healing center.
Photographer: Ken Sparks; Courtesy of Fort Worth Camera Club and Transform 1012 N. Main Street.
From Ruins of a Ku Klux Klan Hall, Fort Worth Reshapes Racial Narrative
A local coalition just won $3 million in federal funding to help start healing a century-old wound.
After years of start-and-stop efforts, citizens in Fort Worth, Texas, are taking steps to change the narrative about a darker time in their city’s history.
A project to transform a nearly century-old Ku Klux Klan meeting hall just received a $3 million boost from the federal government. The former KKK Klavern No. 101 auditorium — long an eyesore — was headed toward demolition as recently as 2019. Now it’s on its way to becoming an art and racial-healing center named after the only Black person documented to have been lynched in the city.