Dr. Richard McCaslin is a Professor of History at the University of North Texas. McCaslin’s book, Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, October 1862, won the Tullis Prize of Texas State Historical Association.  He will address issues pertaining to a difficult history of lynching in America, with a focus on the State of Texas. The topic is pertinent to the current special exhibit at the Dallas Holocaust Museum, Seeking Justice: the Leo Frank Case Revisited. This talk also serves as a foundation to an exhibit to open on October 25 at the African American Museum of Dallas entitled ‘Texas Justice?’.