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.” Bill Carrigan photo ...

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 ...

WACO - The City Council has approved a resolution condemning lynchings and the "mob mentality" that led to them in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. "We are appalled and grieved by heinous ...

Waco will host a ceremony to commemorate the designation of the lynching of Jesse Washington as an Official Texas Historical Marker.

The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP, by Houston author and publicist Patricia Bernstein, was released by the Texas A&M Press this month.

A 17-year-old girl was arrested for helping a Waco man avoid arrest after he threatened several people with a machine gun and shot a police dog during a chase.

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. On Saturday afternoon city officials and ...

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 ...

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.