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In 1916, seventeen-year-old Jesse Washington, a retarded black boy, was publicly tortured, lynched, and burned on the town square of Waco, Texas. Drawing on extensive research in the national files of the NAACP, local newspapers and archives, and interviews with the descendants of participants in the events of that day, Patricia Bernstein has reconstructed the details of not only the crime but also how it influenced the NAACP's antilynching campaign.

The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse

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    Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
    Publication Date: 30/12/2006
    ISBN13: 9781585445448, 978-1585445448
    ISBN10: 1585445444
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    Civics and citizenship Crime and criminology Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    In 1916, seventeen-year-old Jesse Washington, a retarded black boy, was publicly tortured, lynched, and burned on the town square of Waco, Texas. Drawing on extensive research in the national files of the NAACP, local newspapers and archives, and interviews with the descendants of participants in the events of that day, Patricia Bernstein has reconstructed the details of not only the crime but also how it influenced the NAACP's antilynching campaign.

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