Negro Agitator Shot

Title

Negro Agitator Shot

Source Type

Newspapers

Publisher

Chicago Eagle

Publication Place

Chicago, IL

Publication Date

07/23/1898

Transcript

Negro Agitator Shot. A mob of white men went to the house of John Durrett, colored, at Coaling. Al., to arrest the negro. He had been trying to arouse the blacks against the whites for the lynching of Sidney Johnson the day before. When Durrett war ordered to come from his house he cursed the posse and tried to escape in his night garments out of a back window. He had not gone fifty yards before he was shot twenty times.

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