Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Remembers James Byrd Jr.
June 08, 2020
June 08, 2020
WASHINGTON, June 8 -- The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued the following news release:
Is the 22-year mark of the horrific hate crime that took the life of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas. On June 7, 1998, Mr. Byrd, a Black 49-year-old father of three, had just left a friend's anniversary party and was walking home, when a pickup truck with three white supremacists in it stopped and picked him up.
The next morning Mr. Byrd's body was f . . .
Is the 22-year mark of the horrific hate crime that took the life of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas. On June 7, 1998, Mr. Byrd, a Black 49-year-old father of three, had just left a friend's anniversary party and was walking home, when a pickup truck with three white supremacists in it stopped and picked him up.
The next morning Mr. Byrd's body was f . . .