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James Byrd Jr. was born on May 2, 1949, [11] in Beaumont, Texas, [12] the third of nine children, to Stella Mae Sharp and James Byrd Sr. [13] His mother was a Sunday School teacher and his father was a deacon at the Greater New Bethel Church.
News of the shooting had quickly spread throughout the region and thousands began pouring into the downtown area. A mob of 6,000 people pushed their way into the funeral parlour where Jesse's body was sent after being killed by Sam Harris. The corpse was yanked out of the funeral parlour, tied to a truck and dragged through Waco on Franklin Ave.
Longview is a city in, and county seat of, Gregg County, Texas, United States. Longview is located in East Texas, where Interstate 20 and U.S. highways 80 and 259 converge just north of the Sabine River. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the city had a population of 81,638. [7]
An audience of 10,000, including the mayor and chief of police, was said to have attended the lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, in 1916. [16] As well as being hanged, victims were sometimes tortured first and burned alive; body parts were removed and kept or sold as souvenirs.
Many black homes burned to discourage citizens from coming forward [388] Lynch, Jay: 28: White: Missouri: Barton: Missouri: May 28, 1919: Murder: Hanged. Walters, Lemuel: African American: Longview: Gregg: Texas: June 17, 1919: Making "indecent advances" to a white woman: The report of the affair and the subsequent coverup led to the Longview ...
The Longview metropolitan statistical area is a metropolitan area in Northeast Texas that covers four counties—Gregg, Harrison, Rusk, and Upshur. As of the 2010 census the MSA had a population of 280,000 (though a July 1, 2019 estimate placed the population at 286,657).
Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas, and operates secondary corporate offices in Jefferson, Louisiana (near New Orleans). [5] [6] SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries. [1]
Caroline Rose Hunt (January 8, 1923 – November 13, 2018) was an American heiress and hotelier who was at one time the wealthiest woman in the United States. [2] She is known for having been the founder of Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, which she opened in 1979.