Eyewitness Account

ID: 1599 ~ Source: Goodman, Harold Lester, interviewed by Gary Wayne Hull, June 23, 1977, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview
This file appears in: Jesse Washington Lynching

Harold Lester Goodman speaks of the lynching of Jesse Washington that he witnessed at the age of fourteen.

This file appears in: Jesse Washington Lynching

By Kurt Terry
Society in the South evolved ensuing the emancipation of slaves after the Civil War. The Reconstruction of the South ended in 1877 and only added to the bad racial tensions in the region. Whites instituted laws that held blacks back from education,…