Working Together To Reduce Racism
10th Anniversary Tribute to James Byrd Jr. of Jasper, Texas

Sunday, June 22, 2:00 pm
Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco

Tickets: $10, $20, & $35
City Box Office
Tel. 415-392-4400
www.cityboxoffice.com

James Byrd Jr. was murdered when he was chained to a truck and dragged three miles through the outskirts of Jasper, Texas by three white supremacists.

This tribute is sponsored by The James Byrd Jr. Racism Oral History Project, A Project of the Byrd Foundation for Racial Healing

Performances by Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir and Bill Spooner

Co-sponsored by ACLU of Northern California, Adopt International, African American Historical and Cultural Society, American Friends Service Committee, Burmese American Democratic Alliance, Equal Rights Advocates, Freedom Archives, Equal Justice Society, Facing History and Ourselves, Global Exchange, Holocaust Center of Northern California, Dolores Huerta Foundation, Hunters Point Family, Japanese American Citizens League, Japanese American Historical Society, Justice Matters, National Center for Lesbian Rights, National Council of Negro Women (Golden Gate), United Farm Workers of America, The Women’s Building, Women’s intercultural network, and Youth Speaks.

Interfaith cosponsors are First Baptist Church, Grace Tabernacle Community Church, Islamic Society of San Francisco, Network of Spiritual Progressives, Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, Temple Beth Israel and Voice of Pentecost Church.

Media cosponsores are Asian Week, Bay Area Black Journalists Association, El Tecolote, Hokubei Mainichi, Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, Oakland Post, Oakland Tribune, Radio Bilingue, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco Bay View, Sun Reporter, Tikkun and the Society of Professional Journalists (Northern California).

For more Information please call or write:
The James Byrd Jr. Racism Oral History Project
Tel. 415/485-4208
byrdproject@aol.com
P.O. Box 27333, San Francisco, CA. 94127