[stevenwoo]

A man was lynched in east Texas by dragging him behind a truck, that was in the news in our lifetime (in 1998.) I was surprised they prosecuted the killers because prior to this, no white person even went to prison in Texas for killing a black person post reconstruction.

[SaintGhurka]

>> no white person even went to prison in Texas for killing a black person post reconstruction

That's astounding. Do you have a source for this?

[stevenwoo]

You can choose your own news sources but here's the wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr. It was pretty sickening to read the headlines in the newspapers at the time.