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Murder of James Byrd Jr. James Byrd Jr. (May 2, 1949 – June 7, 1998) was an American man who was murdered by three men, two of whom were avowed white supremacists, in Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998. Shawn Berry, Lawrence Brewer, and John King dragged him for three miles (five kilometers) behind a Ford pickup truck along an asphalt road.
Vidor (/ ˈvaɪdər / VY-dər) is a city in western Orange County, Texas, United States. A city of Southeast Texas, it lies at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Farm to Market Road 105, 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Beaumont. The town is mainly a bedroom community for the nearby refining complexes in Beaumont and Port Arthur and is part of the ...
A protest was held on June 6 in Vidor, known as a sundown town and a stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan. [91] People gathered outside the Raymond Gould Community Center to unite in protesting George Floyd's murder. Speakers included the head of the Beaumont chapter of the NAACP as well as several Vidorians.
Edgar Ray Killen (January 17, 1925 – January 11, 2018) was an American Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964. [1][2] He was found guilty in state court of three counts of manslaughter on June ...
November 1922 – June 10, 1939. Preceded by. William Joseph Simmons. Succeeded by. James Arnold Colescott. Hiram Wesley Evans (September 26, 1881 – September 14, 1966) was an American dentist and political activist who served as the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, an American white supremacist group, from 1922 to his resignation in 1939 ...
Spouse. Jill Fratta. . (m. 1999) . Randall Dale Adams (December 17, 1948 – October 30, 2010 [1]) was an American man wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death after the 1976 shooting of Dallas police officer Robert W. Wood. [2][3] His conviction was overturned in 1989. [4] Throughout his legal ordeal, Adams maintained his innocence.
United States. State (s) Texas. Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973) was an American serial killer and sex offender who abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered a minimum of twenty-eight teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston and Pasadena, Texas. He was aided by two teenaged accomplices, David Owen Brooks ...
Ku Klux Klan The Mystic Insignia of a Klansman, also known as the Blood Drop Cross, has been the most well known Klan symbol dating back to the early 1900s. Political position Far-right First Klan (1865–1872) Founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, U.S. Members Unknown Political ideologies Anti-black racism White supremacy White nationalism Vigilantism Segregationism [a] Christian terrorism Neo ...