A Death in Texas

A Death in Texas

A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption

by Dina Temple-Raston

352 pages· 2003· ISBN 9780805072778
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Drawn from detailed interviews with an extraordinary cast of characters, a shocking true account retells the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr., a forty-nine-year-old black man who was chained to the bumper of a truck and dragged down a country road by a trio of young white men, through the eyes of Sheriff Billy Rowles, who is forced to face a town filled with racism and hate. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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