What happened? I will tell you what happened, she was a yankee person of color who knew her rights in a small Texas town. She was lynched in her cell for it. I went to high school in Houston, and during that time we heard about a town not too far away (probably this one) that still did lynchings and the reason we heard about it was because that year, a black man got chained to a pickup truck out there and was dragged to death. I'm not sure if he was visiting from Chicago or not.