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, Ala., 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 was 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 sards before he was shot twenty times.
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