Author Name: Temple-Raston, Dina
Title: A Death in Texas: a Story of Race, Murder, and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: NY Henry Holt 2002
ISBN Number: 0805066527 / 9780805066524
Illustrator: Illustrated by Jaramillo, Raquel; Metsch, Fritz
Seller ID: 14894
317 pages; Fine/Fine. Full number sequence. Attractive gray on teal boards with bright silver lettering. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is great! In protective sleeve. An excellent gift! A vivid account of how a small Texas town faced up to its racist past in the wake of the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr. Before 1998 few Americans had ever heard of Jasper, Texas. That all changed June 7, 1998, when a trio of young white men chained a forty-nine year old black man named James Byrd, Jr. To the bumper of a truck and dragged him three miles down a country road.
Non-fiction
Price =
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