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James Byrd, Jr.

Race Tears Apart Texas Town, 14 Years After Ugly Racist Murder

In 1998, three white supremacists in Jasper, Texas committed one of the most heinous hate crimes in recent American history. The three men hog-tied 49-year-old James Byrd Jr. to the back of their pickup truck and dragged him to his death along a 3-mile stretch of bumpy asphalt, eventually dumping what remained of his body [...]