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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Texas A.& M. U.P. JAN-MARCH 06
Patricia Bernstein The First Waco Horror Pbk published March 2006 by Texas A.& M. U.P. at £14.95 ISBN: 1585445444


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The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP
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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