Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, TexasOn June 7, 1998, James Byrd, Jr., a forty nine year old black man, was dragged to his death while chained to the back of a pickup truck driven by three young white men. It happened just outside of Jasper, a sleepy East Texas logging town that, within twenty four hours of the discovery of the murder, would be inextricably linked in the nations imagination to an exceptionally brutal, modern day lynching. In this superbly written examination of the