
In 1998, three white men in the small town of Jasper, Texas, chained a black man to the back of their pickup truck and dragged him to his death. This film relates that story and how it affected all of the residents of the town, both black and white.
James Byrd, Jr.

Billy Rowles

R.C. Horn

Walter Diggles

Ricky Horn

Khalid X

Beating Cop

Norva

City Manager
Old Sour Man (as Jim Bearden)
Kathy

Judge
Moe Johnson

Reverend

Gloria Mays

Don Clark

Council Member #2

Principal

Black Young Man
Claire Byrd

Lieutenant
James Byrd Sr.

Mamie Horn

Thurman Byrd

Mary Horn

Jury Foreman