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 ...

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. ...

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.

WACO, Texas — A dedication ceremony was held Sunday in Downtown Waco for a new historical marker that recognizes one of the city's darkest moments in history: the 1916 lynching of Black teen ...

He points to the lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, as, “one of the most spectacular lynchings in American history.” In 1916, the body of Lucy Fryer, a white woman, was found dead on ...