By Dina Temple-Raston
A unprecedented account of the way a small Texas city struggled to return to grips with its racist previous within the aftermath of the brutal homicide of James Byrd, Jr.
On June 7, 1998, a forty-nine-year-old black guy named James Byrd, Jr., was once chained to the bumper of a truck and dragged 3 miles down a rustic highway via a trio of younger white males. It didn't take lengthy for the citizens of Jasper, Texas, to profit concerning the homicide or to fret that the identify in their city may develop into the nation's shorthand for hate crimes.
From the preliminary research in the course of the trials and their aftermath, A dying in Texas tells the tale of the notorious Byrd homicide as visible throughout the eyes of enlightened Sheriff Billy Rowles. What he sees is a group compelled to confront not just a grisly crime but additionally antebellum traditions approximately race. Drawing on wide interviews with key gamers, journalist Dina Temple-Raston introduces a outstanding solid of characters, from the baby-faced killer, invoice King, to Joe Tonahill, Jasper's white patriarch who can't comprehend the furor over the killing. There's additionally James Byrd, the hard-drinking sufferer together with his personal darkish previous; the prosecutor and protection lawyers; and invoice King's father, who's demise of a damaged middle as he awaits his son's execution.
Just as Bernard Lefkowitz pulled again the curtain on Glenridge, New Jersey, in his vintage paintings Our men, Temple-Raston is going backstage in Jasper, Texas, to inform the tale of a city the place racism and evil made itself at domestic
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