Murder of James Byrd Jr. - Wikipedia
WEBJames Byrd Jr. (May 2, 1949 – June 7, 1998) was an African American man who was murdered by three white men, two of whom were avowed white supremacists, in Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998. Shawn Berry, Lawrence Brewer, and John King dragged him for three miles (five kilometers) behind a Ford pickup truck along an asphalt road.
Texas Executes Man Convicted In 1998 Murder Of James Byrd Jr.
WEBApr 24, 2019 · Twenty-one years ago, in the east Texas town of Jasper, 49-year-old James Byrd Jr. was walking home late on a Saturday night when three white men in a pickup truck pulled up beside him. The...
Murder of James Byrd, Jr. | Crime, Trials, & Facts | Britannica
WEBSep 6, 2024 · Murder of James Byrd, Jr., killing of James Byrd, Jr., an African American man, on June 7, 1998, in the East Texas town of Jasper. Byrd was dragged to his death after being chained by the ankles to the back of a pickup truck by three white men (John William King, Lawrence Russell Brewer, and Shawn Allen Berry).
Texas executes white supremacist who dragged black man to death - CBS News
WEBApr 25, 2019 · The killing of Byrd was a hate crime that put a national spotlight on Jasper, a town of about 7,600 residents near the Texas-Louisiana border that was branded with a racist stigma it has...
James Byrd Jr's killer executed for notorious 1998 hate crime - BBC
WEBApr 25, 2019 · In the early hours of 7 June 1998, in Jasper, Texas, Byrd, 49, encountered Brewer, King and Berry on the way home from a party. The three men assaulted Byrd, then chained him by his ankles...
James Byrd Jr. murder 25 years ago sparked hate crime laws | The Texas …
WEBJun 7, 2023 · The quiet East Texas town of Jasper came together immediately after the racist murder of James Byrd Jr. Now, Texas is leading the nation in incidents of white supremacist propaganda.
James Byrd's brutal murder has faded from a Texas town’s …
WEBAug 21, 2023 · Twenty-five years after a Black man, James Byrd, was killed by three White men in this East Texas town, many in Jasper are ready to forget.
In Texas, a Decades-Old Hate Crime, Forgiven but Never Forgotten
WEBJul 9, 2018 · The family of James Byrd Jr., a Texas man dragged to his death 20 years ago, is working to preserve the memory of a racially motivated killing that shocked the nation.
Texas Executes White Supremacist for 1998 Dragging Death of James Byrd …
WEBApr 24, 2019 · John William King, 44, convicted two decades ago for killing James Byrd Jr. in an act of unfathomable racist brutality in the small town of Jasper, was put to death by the State of Texas on...
Texas Executes Man Convicted In 1998 Murder Of James Byrd Jr.
WEBApr 24, 2019 · A section of Huff Creek Road in Jasper, Texas, where James Byrd Jr., a black man, was dragged to death. John William King, the convicted ringleader in Byrd's death, was executed on Wednesday. Shawn Berry, the driver of …
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