Two towns of Jasper

Two towns of Jasper

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In 1998 in Jasper, Texas, James Byrd, Jr., a black man, was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death by three white men. The town was forever altered, and the nation woke up to the horror of a modern-day lynching. The filmmakers set out to document the aftermath of the murder by following...

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Corporate Authors: Independent Television Service, National Black Programming Consortium, Two Tone Productions, PBS Video
Format: Video VHS
Published: [Arlington, Va.] : PBS Video, [2003]
Subjects:
Byrd, James, > Jr., > 1949-1998.
Murder > Texas > Jasper.
African American men > Crimes against > Texas > Jasper.
Hate crimes > Texas > Jasper.
Race relations > United States.
Films for hard of hearing people.
Hate crimes.
Murder.
African American men > Crimes against.
African American men.
Race relations.
Jasper (Tex.) > Race relations.
Texas > Jasper.
United States.

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