Hate Crime
The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas
by Joyce King
240 pages· 2003· ISBN 9780385721950
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Describes the brutal 1998 death of James Byrd, Jr., a forty-nine-year-old black man dragged to his death behind a pick-up truck driven by three young white men, and its aftermath, discussing the three men convicted of the crime, the racism that pervades American society, and the personal impact of the murder on the author. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
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