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Forgetting the Lynching of Jesse Washington: Manifestations of Memory and the "Waco Horror"
… of a seventeen-year old African American named Jesse Washington in 1916. Also known as the “Waco Horror,” the lynching disappeared from public conversation in Waco shortly after its occurrence. For nearly a century, the lynching remained relegated to anti-lynching movements, academic study, and …
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The whirlwind and the lynching tree : apocalyptic and liberation theology in the black Waco tradition.
… justice in the aftermath of the 1916 lynching of Jesse Washington. Historically anchored by this tradition, my concern is two-fold: first, to provide a critical interpretation of this tradition; second, to value its methodological significance as a way of doing theology. I argue that the black …