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hands joined together during the community prayer vigil at the Jasper County courthouse.

Tears streamed down the cheeks of Tamesa Keaton 12, as she during a prayer vigil on the courthouse lawn

Residents come together to pray for unity.

In a community that has been wracked by the agony of his brutal murder, believed to been racially motivated, a young girl stares quietly at the coffin of James Byrd Jr. during public visitations.

the Rev. Jesse Jackson comforts the victim's family outside their home. Jackson attended the vigil at birds church where he said ' it could've been any one of us. It means none of us are safe'.

A crowd collects outside the office of sheriff Billy Rowles where photos of a murder suspect suspects were taped on windows. The men allegedly changed a black hitchhiker to a pickup truck that dragged him to death.

Markings on Huff Creek Road indicating the spot where the head of the James Byrd was found.

the bodies of three Christian men killed by the Muslims.

The body of the Christian man the angry mob beat to death.

Muslim leader of the lynch mob cutting dead man's throat.