And Alan Lomax had somevery compelling and really engaging stories to tell about actually painting himself up in blackface so that he could go into black communities, so that some of the whites wouldn't single him out and beat him up or whatever."

VOA: special.2010.01.18

That same year,three white men in Texas beat a black man, James Byrd Junior,and pulled him to his death behind a truck.

VOA: special.2009.10.31