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Article: Color it black and white: two heart-rocking new books--about a vicious Texas murder and a little church that could--paint blistering portraits of race in America. (Reading Room).(Hate Crime: The Story of a Draggin in Jasper, Texas; Standing on Holy Ground: A Triumph over Hate Crime in the Deep South)
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- June 1, 2002
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WHEN HER BOSS AT A CBS RADIO affiliate in Dallas told reporter Joyce King he was sending her to Jasper, the East Texas town where a black man named James Byrd Jr. had been dragged to his death behind a truck, she had a gut reaction: Don't go there! Though King, who is black, was a force for change in her racially polarized community, her own painful brushes with bigotry left her with no desire to cover the trials of the three white men accused of Byrd's murder. She wondered if she could be objective, but she took on the assignment. Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas (Pantheon) is a gripping account of an unimaginably brutal murder. It is also a lesson in ...
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