The First Waco Horror Summary

A review of: Patricia Bernstein’s The First Waco Horror. Patricia Bernstein’s The First Waco Horroris a brutally honest and shocking review of a gruesome act of history in 1916 in a Waco, Texas. The First Waco Horror is based around a disturbing incident about a young seventeen-year-old boy by the name of Jesse Washington who was a mentally challenged African American. Jesse Washington was blamed and charged of murdering and raping a white woman. Due to being convicted of such acts, Jesse Washington was brutally tortured, lynched, and burned to a slow miserable death. The entire community of Waco, Texas, which was almost a group of twenty thousand people cheered and celebrated as they watched the young boy Jesse Washington painful go through