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"On June 7, 1998, James Byrd, Jr., a forty-nine-year-old black man, was dragged to his death while chained to the back of a pickup truck driven by three young white men. It happened just outside of Jasper, a sleepy East Texas logging town that, within twenty-four hours of the discovery of the murder, would be inextricably linked in the nation's imagination to an exceptionally brutal, modern-day lynching.".
"In this examination of the murder and its aftermath, journalist Joyce King brings us on a journey that begins at the crime scene and extends into the minds of the young men who so casually ended a man's life. She takes us inside the prison in which two of them met for the first time, and she shows how it played a major role in shaping their attitudes - racial and otherwise.
The result is a deeply engrossing psychological portrait of the accused and a powerful indictment of the American prison system's ability to reform criminals. Finally, King writes with candor and clarity about how the events of that fateful night have affected her - as a black woman, a native Texan, and a journalist given the agonizing assignment of covering the trials of all three defendants."--BOOK JACKET.
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Race relations, Murder, Racism, Crimes against, African American men, Hate crimes, Homicide, Murder, texas, African american men, Jasper county (tex.)People
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Hate Crime
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Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas
December 2, 2003, Anchor
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Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas
May 28, 2002, Pantheon, Pantheon Books
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"Jasper is extremely small, a typical East Texas bedroom community."
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