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Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas (1st Edition) by Joyce King Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-10: 0-385-72195-1 / 0385721951 ISBN-13: 978-0-385-72195-0 / 9780385721950 On June 7, 1998, James Byrd, Jr., a forty-nine-year-old black man, was dragged to his death while chained to the back of a pickup truck driven by three young white men. It happened just outside of Jasper, a sleepy East Texas logging town that, within twenty-four hours of the discovery of the murder, |