Dr. Kathryn Holliday 📞 Profile picture
Architecture & landscape historian + educator, design justice and historic preservation. Joining @archatillinois Fall 2023. Account dormant
Jul 7, 2020 11 tweets 5 min read
As a historian who would support the reuse of almost any building, I cannot see spending millions on Fort Worth's former Klan HQ as a space of "healing." There are so many better uses of HP $ to support Black communities and history. Thread: a few reasons why 1/10 Klan Hall on N. Main Street, Fort Worth When the Klan HQ opened on Main Street in 1924 it was a monument to racism and violence, in line with the county courthouse and casting a shadow on Frederick Douglass Park where Black families held Juneteenth celebrations in FW starting in 1895 and… 2/10