From 1891 to 1922, Texans burned an average of one person of color at the stake a year for three decades. These burnings typically featured carnival atmospheres with thousands in attendance, including men, women and children who later described the spectacles as jovial ‘barbecues’ or ‘roasts, ‘ and commemorated the events with ‘lynching’ postcards. It was a period when many white Texans-previously enraged by Reconstruction-reasserted white primacy and terrorized black Texans with impunity. Join author E. R. Bills in this recounting of an African American holocaust. E. R. Bills is a Texas author and historian who also wrote ‘The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas’ and ‘Texas Obscurities:: Stories of the Peculiar, Exceptional and Nefarious.’
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