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Louvon Harris

...because it's senseless. When we got to Jasper , we were very surprised. I was ver...
...the following day, we all got to Jasper , and the news in town was, there'...
...we don't know who it is. There was, in Jasper , an announcement on the radio. All th...
...you have the other quarters where, in Jasper , people are segregated, where certai...
...or whatever, never have anybody in Jasper knocking on the Byrd family door. D...

...things like that to honor him because Jasper , Texas, want everyone to forge...
...Jasper, Texas, want everyone to forget Jasper . They said it happened and making ou...
...to just squash it. We sympathized with Jasper , but we were not going to squash thi...
...to James, it would be a change in Jasper , the mentality, and open their eye...
...that this is real and that it happened Jasper , and we need to memorialize i...
...we need to memorialize it happened in Jasper so when people pass through Jasper, i...
...in Jasper so when people pass through Jasper , it will open their eyes that, Okay...
...we moved it back. Every time I go to Jasper I check and see, make sure they didn'...
...move it back; because we don't live in Jasper anymore. We don't live there anymore. ...
...forth and everything. Next time I'm in Jasper , I always go by the court and see i...
...to be the change and to open eyes in Jasper , and the people visiting there—to ope...
...He said, “One day I'm going to put Jasper on the map. Just wait and see.” But h...
...I guess very little. I don't live in Jasper , but when I go there, I can see th...
...got a new generation of people in Jasper that didn't know there was a James Byr...
...dragged to death, and this happened in Jasper ,” and everything. We did it for tha...
...living. We want everybody coming to Jasper , the new people who are coming t...
...the new people who are coming to Jasper , the young generation coming, to as...
...of people in East Texas now, in Jasper , and they may not know the story. An...
...incorporate it, and not the young ones. Jasper is changing. It's changing its dynamic...
...never know. Of course. But I want Jasper to heal and to be able to not see it a...
...of country, and things were heard about Jasper , and they said, “Oh, you're from tha...
...to say, “Yes, I'm sorry it happened in Jasper , but we're working together to mak...
...the mentality is right now. It's that Jasper has a big mark, and they're trying t...

Ta-Nehisi Coates

...Jackson, his wife, and his young son Jasper . My wife came down, and my son...

Jasper, SC - Obama Presidency Oral History

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