The "Waco Horror" still reverberates, 100 years later. May 23, 2016 / 8:54 AM EDT / AP WACO, Texas - Mary Pearson doesn't need to be reminded of Jesse Washington's lynching.

The Waco Horror left a stain on Waco's name and conscience. Bernstein shows how the NAACP chose to make an example of Waco precisely because of its prior reputation for learning and culture.

The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP By Patricia Bernstein Texas A&M University Press, 252 pp. $29.95 Among the scores of lynching photographs, one ...

White Waco spent most of the 20th century trying to forget the atrocity, dubbed the “Waco Horror” by the national press. The incident stood as a turning point in national anti-lynching efforts ...

‘Waco Horror’ marks centennial In this May 2, 2016 photo, sisters Mary Pearson, left, and Evelyn Denise Mitchell hold the mayoral proclamation recognizing the anniversary of the Jesse ...

Patricia Bernstein talked about her book, [The First Waco Horror: the Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP], in which she reconstructs the details of not only the lynching but ...

WACO - Of the nearly 500 lynchings that took place in Texas before the crime abated in the 1930s, the "Waco horror" is among the most notorious. On May 15, 1916, Jesse Washington, a retarded black ...

On the day after the Branch Davidian sect’s complex in Waco, Texas, became an inferno, there are only questions: Was it necessary for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to attack the compound?

As the horror unfolded, the thousands of spectators who filled the lawns of downtown Waco, including children who had been released early from school, ate picnic lunches and cheered.

The marker, titled "The Waco Horror: The lynching of Jesse Washington," was commissioned in 2021 and will be dedicated at a ceremony at City Hall on Feb. 12.

Mary Pearson doesn't need to be reminded of Jesse Washington's lynching. The Robinson resident grew up hearing the stories from her grandmother, a relative of the 17-year-old farmhand who was ...