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 ...

Historian William Carrigan, a Waco native, studied Central Texas lynchings exhaustively for his 2004 book “The Making of a Lynching Culture. ...

Historian William Carrigan, a Waco native, studied Central Texas lynchings exhaustively for his 2004 book “The Making of a Lynching Culture. ...

Texas History Inside the Decades-long Effort to Commemorate a Notorious Waco Lynching After years of opposition and delay, Waco has finally posted a historical marker about the 1916 murder of ...

In that lynching, historian Patricia Bernstein writes, Washington was “beaten, stabbed, mutilated, hanged and burned to death on the Waco town square, before an audience of 10-15,000 screaming ...

WACO, Texas - 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 ...

WACO, Texas — The City of Waco will hold a dedication ceremony in February to commemorate a new historical marker marking an infamous lynching that took place in 1916.

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - More than 100 years after the lynching of a Black man in Waco local leaders want to make sure the community never forgets his name.

It's the story of Jesse Washington, who was lynched in 1916 in Waco, Texas. And his lynching took place at city hall. Code Switch The life of a 'Civil Rights Queen' ...

In its frequently cited history, NAACP documents 4,743 lynchings in the U.S. between 1882 and 1968 alone. Of the victims, 3,446 were Black people. It does not include innumerable crimes that went ...

A native Texan himself – from Waco – he’s been an editorial page editor in San Diego, Calif., a contributor to Texas Monthly, a speechwriter for Gov. Ann Richards, a staff writer for The ...