Two Towns of Jasper: Film Screening and Q&A with Visiting Documentarian, Marco Williams

Location

Malco Oxford Commons Cinema

Start Date

5-9-2019 6:00 PM

End Date

5-9-2019 8:00 PM

Publication Date

September 2019

Description

In 1998 in Jasper, Texas, James Byrd Jr., a black man, was chained to a pick-up truck and dragged to his death by three white men. The town was forever altered, and the nation woke up to the horror of a modern-day lynching. Two film crews, one black and one white, set out to document the aftermath of the murder by following the subsequent trials of the local men charged with the crime. The result is an explicit and troubling portrait of race in America, one that asks how and why a crime like this could have occurred. This event is free and open to the public.

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Sep 5th, 6:00 PM Sep 5th, 8:00 PM

Two Towns of Jasper: Film Screening and Q&A with Visiting Documentarian, Marco Williams

Malco Oxford Commons Cinema

In 1998 in Jasper, Texas, James Byrd Jr., a black man, was chained to a pick-up truck and dragged to his death by three white men. The town was forever altered, and the nation woke up to the horror of a modern-day lynching. Two film crews, one black and one white, set out to document the aftermath of the murder by following the subsequent trials of the local men charged with the crime. The result is an explicit and troubling portrait of race in America, one that asks how and why a crime like this could have occurred. This event is free and open to the public.