That time when a white girl took a goat to watch a black man get lynched

Kevin Shay
Democracy Guardian
Published in
11 min readMar 2, 2024

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Among all the dark photos of lynchings I’ve seen, this is one of the strangest

Back in the 1980s, I started working with Roy Williams, a civil rights icon who I consider to be greater than the football star or ad wizard with the same name who more people might know.

We first crossed paths at a religious meeting in Dallas. We hit it off almost immediately, even though our upbringings could hardly have been more different.

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Investigated the JFK and January 6th plots. Walked and drove across nations. Also writes a bit. More at https://www.amazon.com/Kevin-J.-Shay/e/B004BCQRTG