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Survivors include four sons, Eddie Martinez and wife Sheryl , of Las Crucas, N.M., James Byrd and wife Julia, of Greenwood, S.C., Frank Byrd and wife Theresa and Rufus Breeden, all of Magnolia; one brother, Cary Byrd and wife Carol Ann, of Bullard, Texas; two sisters, Eleanor Case and husband Lloyd, of Magnolia, and Kathryn Eileen White, of Arlington, Texas; eight grandchildren; special friend, Ernie Callihan; and special caregiver, Regina Breeden. Janet Mary Huskey. (Enterprise-Journal)
Exhibitions reach for understanding in the face of hate Jun 22, 2006
Lynn JohnsonThe sisters of James Byrd Jr., who was dragged to death by racists, form a family portrait in front of their brother's grave ... Within the gallery, 52 images are drawn from two events: the 1998 dragging death of African-American James Byrd Jr. by three white racists in Jasper, Texas, and the shooting by a homophobe of a number of patrons in a gay bar in Roanoke, Va. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
The woman who sketched the Enron trial for the world to see Jun 8, 2006
Lopez is experienced in catching the richness of detail as in the tattoos of James King, convicted of the Jasper dragging death of James Byrd. Pat Lopez is currently writing a book. (KHOU.com, TX)
NAACP Releases Information on IRS Audit Jun 6, 2006
In the ad, the daughter of James Byrd, a black man dragged to death by three white men in a pickup truck, faulted then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush for not instituting a hate-crime law. According to Hug, the ads were an attack on Bush from a group that is prohibited from political campaigning. (OMB Watch)
Doctors Plan to Induce Less Labors on 6-6-06 Jun 6, 2006
I think people are fascinated by numbers, and I think we have a tendency to think that numbers mean something, said James Byrd with Vanderbilt Divinity School. The number comes from Revelation in the Bible, and has since been seen in everything from Visa credit cards to theories about world leaders. (NewsChannel5.com)
Letters highlight GOP scrutiny of NAACP May 19, 2006
In it, the daughter of James Byrd, a black man dragged to death by three white men in a pickup truck, faulted then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush for refusing her pleas for a hate-crime law. I was acting as a citizen, and I think that everyone else ought to be concerned if they have nonprofit status and they are using political ads, he said Wednesday. (MSNBC -- Race)
IRS audit of NAACP was asked May 18, 2006
In the campaign ad, the daughter of James Byrd, a black man dragged to death by three white men in a pickup truck in Texas, blames then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush for refusing her pleas for hate-crime legislation. Hug, who was then the finance chairman in Maryland for Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, said the ads were an attack on Bush from a group that is forbidden to engage in political campaigns. (SunSpot.net)
Court Upholds Firing Of Blackface Paraders May 5, 2006
Walters held on to the back of the float in a re enactment of the dragging death of a black man, James Byrd, at the hands of three white men in Jasper, Texas. After the parade, the men claimed they were merely trying to entertain and amuse. (Queens Chronicle, NY)
Byrd to stay in race Apr 7, 2006
Erma Ora James Byrd, also 88, died March 25 after battling an illness for five years. Friends and critics alike praised the longevity of the Byrds marriage and their devotion to each other. (Charleston Gazette, WV -- News)
Erma Byrd dies at 88 Mar 26, 2006
The high school sweetheart U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd married almost 69 years ago, Erma Ora James Byrd, died Saturday at their home in McLean, Va ... Erma Ora James Byrd, shown in this undated photo provided by the office of her husband, Sen. (Charleston Gazette, WV -- News)
Stiffer penalties for 'hate crimes?' Mar 25, 2006
here in the US during the Jim Crow years up to the present(The James Byrd murder was one of the last exhibits). Those are just the ones that are documented. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Finding Words to Talk About Race Jan 16, 2006
Even when James Byrd, Jr., was murdered in Jasper, Texas -- he was chained by his ankles and dragged behind a pickup truck -- and the murderers were tried and convicted in my hometown, people didn't talk about it. And there, right in the center of middle class, middle America, is the root of this nation's difficulty in talking about race and ethnicity. (AlterNet.org)
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