James Byrd - Obama Presidency Oral History

...and they said that he was murdered, “ James Byrd was murdered? I saw him behind a truck...

...That was the message to the world. James Byrd was the victim, but this was for al...

...why I started the Byrd Foundation, the James Byrd Jr. Foundation: so they'd have a resourc...

...squash it, then there will be another James Byrd that's killed for no reason. For thi...

...though we'd love to have a bill named James Byrd Prevention Act, but it would be wron...

...a picture of them signing the bill, the James Byrd Prevention Act, signed in 2004. That'...

...in Jasper that didn't know there was a James Byrd Jr. The last reunion we had, they said...

...said, “No, I never heard the story of James Byrd Jr. ” That kicked us to have to continue t...

...They say, “What is that bench for? James Byrd Jr. ? What's that bench for?” It brings u...

...he's still a prisoner of who he was, as James Byrd , because he was born a Black man...

...being buried, and then on the side with James Byrd was the Black person—so they ha...

...to remember that, that it would be like James Byrd never existed, and wipe the hands o...

...prosecutor, that never knew or heard of James Byrd and everything. So keep them educate...

...in the community where he's in now, James Byrd Memorial Park, so now the kids hav...

...Bush was governor of Texas, and when James Byrd was murdered, the legislature ther...

...and they were going to name it after James Byrd . They tried to convince the Byr...