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James Byrd Jr. was born on May 2, 1949, [11] in Beaumont, Texas, [12] the third of nine children, to Stella Mae Sharp and James Byrd Sr. [13] His mother was a Sunday School teacher and his father was a deacon at the Greater New Bethel Church. Byrd graduated from Jasper Rowe High School in 1967, the last segregated class. After graduating from ...
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A man who orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history was set to be executed Wednesday for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. nearly 21 years ago.
John William King was executed on Thursday for the killing of James Byrd Jr in Jasper, Texas, in 1998.
April 24 (Reuters) - A white supremacist convicted of killing James Byrd Jr. in 1998 by dragging the 49-year-old black man behind a truck in one of the most notorious U.S. hate crimes of modern ...
On February 24, 1999, after a year at WARW (now WIAD), Tracht again made national news for a racist remark. James Byrd Jr. was a Black man murdered in 1998 by three white men who dragged him behind a pickup truck, two of them open white supremacists. The day before the comment, jurors had convicted John William King of Byrd's murder. [15]
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is a landmark United States federal law, passed on October 22, 2009, [1] and signed into law by President Barack Obama on October 28, 2009, [2] as a rider to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010 (H.R. 2647).
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James W. Byrd (born 1954), American Wyoming State Representative James Byrd Jr. (1949–1998), African-American murder victim Sgt. James Byrd, a fictional playable character in Spyro: Year of the Dragon