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9781585444168
In 1916, a crowd of cheering spectators watched as Jesse Washington, a retarded black boy, was publicly tortured, lynched, and burned on the town square of Waco, accused and convicted in a kangaroo court. Patricia Bernstein has reconstructed the details of not only the crime but also its aftermath.Patricia Bernstein is the author of 'The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP' with ISBN 9781585444168 and ISBN 1585444162.
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