Jasper, Texas (2003)

Director
Jeffrey W. Byrd

Main cast
Roy T. Anderson; Demore Barnes; John Bayliss; James Bearden; Samantha Bee

Genres
Horror, Drama

Description
In 1998, three white men in the small town of Jasper, Texas, chained a black man to the back of their pickup truck and dragged him to his death. This film relates that story and how it affected all of the residents of the town, both black and white.


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