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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Waco Horror"”.
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Forgetting the Lynching of Jesse Washington: Manifestations of Memory and the "Waco Horror"
… in 1998, the citizens and civic leaders of Waco, Texas wrestled with the idea of whether to continue to forget the event or to acknowledge, apologize, and reconcile the past. At the center of the debate, a lynching of a seventeen-year old African American named Jesse Washington in 1916. Also …
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The whirlwind and the lynching tree : apocalyptic and liberation theology in the black Waco tradition.
… black oral tradition emerging and circulating in Waco, Texas which claims that an event of sudden climate change—a tornado disaster—striking the city of Waco in 1953 was a sign of divine justice in the aftermath of the 1916 lynching of Jesse Washington. Historically anchored by this tradition, my …