Bowman, Bob, Hanging a Dead Man. Texas Escapes.com. Bob Bowman’s East Texas Column. March 14, 2010. Hanging a Dead Man. (texasescapes.com)
Browning, John. Forged in fire – The W.J. Durham story. Rockwall County Herald Banner. 28 July 2006. Date Accessed 30 Aug 2020. https://www.rockwallheraldbanner.com/opinion/forged-in-fire-the-w-j-durham-story/article_a2bec117-2601-59ce-b862-a398253ec06e.html
Crabb, Beth. “May 1930: White Man’s Justice for a Black Man’s Crime.” The Journal of Negro History 75, no. 1/2 (1990): 29-40. Accessed August 26, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2717687.
Davis, Kendall. May 9th, 1930–Mob Burns the Grayson County Courthouse. Lake Texoma Magazine. October 2017. lake texoma magazine kendall davis may 9, 1930 – Bing
The Story Progressed: 1930 Grayson County Courthouse Riot and the Murder of George Hughes by Kevin Nelson. Lake Texoma Magazine. The Story Progressed: 1930 Grayson County Courthouse Riot and the Murder of George Hughes by Kevin Nelson (laketexoma.com)
Denton-Record Chronicle. “Grayson Grand Jury Believed Probing Riot.” 6 June 1930. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=News-TE-DE_RE_2&h=487790593&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
Dunkirk Evening Observer. “A Texas Mob Lynched Negro and Burned Courthouse.” 12 May 1930. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7960/images/NEWS-NY-DU_EV_OB.1930_05_12-0005?pId=487763973
Equal Justice Initiative, Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror (3d Ed., 2017).
Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror (eji.org)
Hart, Brian. Handbook of Texas Online, “SHERMAN, TX,” accessed August 10, 2020, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hds03.
Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Modified on March 8, 2019. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Helena Independent. “Texans Refuse to Punish Mob that Lynched Negro.” 18 Nov. 1930. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6638/images/NEWS-MT-TH_HE_IN.1930_11_18_0001?pId=487966721
Kumler, Donna J. “They Have Gone from Sherman”: The Courthouse Riot of 1930 and Its Impact on the Black Professional Class, dissertation, December 1995; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277801/: accessed August 26, 2020), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .
Mexia Weekly Herald. Sherman Riot Told Jury in Austin Court. 5 June 1931. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/50300/images/NEWS-TX-TH_ME_WE_HE.1931_06_05_0004?pId=488313860
Nelson, Kevin M. Lynching and the Law—The Bending of the Legal System. Albany Law School, Critical Race Theory Class PDF LYNCH BY KEVIN (anyflip.com)
Phillips, Edward H. (1987) “The Sherman Courthouse Riot of 1930,” East Texas Historical Journal: Vol. 25: Issue. 2, Article 6. Available at: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ethj/vol25/iss2/6 or at The Sherman Courthouse Riot of 1930 (sfasu.edu)
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Books / Thesis
Bills, E.R., Black Holocaust: The Paris Horror and a Legacy of Texas Terror. Eakin Press: Fort Worth, TX. 2015.
H Gordon Frost and John H Jenkins. I’m Frank Hamer: The Life of a Texas Peace Officer. Austin Statehouse Press, 1993.
McElroy, Njoki. 1012 Natchez: A Memoir of Grace, Hardship, and Love. Brown Books Publishing Group: Dallas TX. 2009.
Murphy, Thomas Michael. History of the Sherman Riot. Austin College. Graduate Division, Department of History, 1931. Thesis.
Raper, Arthur F. The Tragedy of a Lynching. Dover Publications Inc. Mineola, New York. 2003.
Pelley-Smith, Betty. Harvest of Tears. Zone Press: Denton, TX. 2007.
Williams, Dusty. The Poor Farm of Grayson County, Texas. Self-published: 2017.
Press Coverage
Newspaper Columns
Vintage
Sherman Democrat– available at: Sherman Daily Democrat – The Portal to Texas History (unt.edu)
May 4,5,6,9,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,23,25,26,27,28,29,30, 1930
June 2,5,10,13,15,16,18,19, 1930
August 7, 1930
September 10,15,30, 1930
October 30, 1930
November 17, 1930
May 29, 1931
June 1,2,3,4,5,19, 1931
July 2, 1931
August 7, 1931
Denison Herald– available at: The Denison Daily Herald – The Portal to Texas History (unt.edu)
May 5,6,8,9,11,13,15,16,18,20,23,25,29, 1930
June 10,13,15,18, 1930
August 7, 1930
September 10,15,30, 1930
October 30, 1930
November 17, 1930
June 1,4,5, 1931
July 2, 1931
August 7, 1931
Dallas Morning News–available at Search Results – Dallas morning news – 637,010 Results – The Portal to Texas History (unt.edu)
May 4,6,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17, 1930
Modern
Dallas Morning News-“Grayson County’s Missing Marker,” Sanders, Ryan, Opinion Section, Friday,
May 20, 2021, Page 12A. Available at:
Grayson County is struggling to reckon with a century-old lynching (dallasnews.com)
Herald Democrat
“Black Business District to be Honored,” Hutchins, Michael, Front Page, Saturday-Sunday
February 6-7, 2021, Page 1A.
“George Hughes, the Riot of 1930,” Hutchins, Michael, Front Page, Saturday-Sunday
February 6-7, 2021, Page 1A.
“Monument Plan Hits Snag,” Hutchins, Michael, Front page, Tuesday March 9, 2021, Page 1A.
“Remembering Our Tarnished History,” Hutchins, Michael, Front Page, Wednesday, March 10, 2021, Page 1A.
“Site Documents More Than 700 Texas Lynchings,” Barnes, Michael, Opinion Section, Saturday-Sunday, March 20-21, 2021, Page 6A.
“Learning From the Past,” Hutchins, Michael, Front Page, Tuesday, May 11, 2021, Page 1A.
Washington Post
“In Texas, a struggle to memorialize a brutal lynching as resistance grows to teaching historical racism,” Trent, Sydney, Retropolis Section, posted Thursday, June 3, 2021.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/06/03/sherman-riot-texas-lynching-marker/
Television Coverage:
KXII,” Black History Presentation, Part 2” Feb 19, 2019 (as presented on YouTube Sep 2019).
Texoma Black History Month – Part 2 The Sherman Riot of 1930 – Bing video
KXII, “Local Historian Works to Get Mark at the Grayson County Courthouse,” Feb 8, 2021.
Local historian works to get mark at the Grayson County courthouse (kxii.com)
KXII, “Awaiting Approval, Local Historians Push for Historical Marker of 1930 Sherman Riot,” May 24, 2021.
Awaiting approval, local historians push for historical marker of 1930 Sherman Riot (msn.com)
“Sherman Riot of 1930,” Stevenson, Robert M., Director/Producer/Editor, Austin College. Graduate Division, Department of History, 19XX (?). VHS Tape.
Blogs
“Strange Fruit and Spanish Moss,” Farlow, Drew., Collection of News Articles from Galveston Daily News (Galveston, TX), May 10, 1930, includes snippets from AP, Pittsburg Courier (Pittsburg, PA), and El Paso Evening Post (El Paso, TX).
“This Day in Texas History: Sherman Lynch Mob Touches off Riot,” Author unknown, May 9, 2013, http://texasasiseeit.net/blog/this-day-in-texas-history-sherman-lynch-mob-touches-off-riot/