Essays

All essays were funded by generous support from Humanities Texas.

“The Lynching of Jesse Washington”
By Patricia Bernstein

“The Making of a Lynching Culture in Central Texas”
By William D. Carrigan

“The Fort Griffin Vigilante Movement, 1876-1878”
By Robert “Ty” Cashion

"Immigration and Lynching"
By Charles H. Ford

“Lynching in the Novels of Sutton E. Griggs”
By John Gruesser

“The Lynching of Hispanic Victims on the Texas Border”
By Sonia Hernandez