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African American volunteers in Jasper, Texas work to overcome their community's history of racial violence and reclaim dignity through grassroots projects, museums, and memorials following the 1998 lynching of James Byrd Jr.
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00:12It was a shop. We hadn't had nothing that terrible. We hadn't had men's kids here before,
00:18but it wasn't nothing like my son, James Perry Jr. That was something that hadn't happened in a long
00:26time. They hooked him up in here with the chain, and then they come out with him,
00:33and they drug him up this road.
00:38Local communities have a special responsibility to tell their story,
00:44and so what you have had is that communities like Jasper, where people have established museums,
00:49they have gone back and reclaimed their history. They're proud of that school. They're proud of
00:54those situations that helped make them who they are today, that helped them to overcome that bad
00:59experience that the world will never forget. They're there to tell their story.

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