The First Waco Horror

The First Waco Horror
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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9781603445474
ISBN-13 : 1603445471
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Book Synopsis The First Waco Horror by : Patricia Bernstein

Download or read book The First Waco Horror written by Patricia Bernstein and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. 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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