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A black postmaster in South Carolina dies alongside his wife and baby while a white mob maims his daughters in an attack.

A mob who beat a black couple and raped the black man’s wife in front of him go free, and the town’s sheriff makes “no effort to arrest the guilty parties.”

A mob who beat a black couple and raped the black man’s wife in front of him go free, and the town’s sheriff makes “no effort to arrest the guilty parties.”

A mob burns down a black household, and the black people get arrested and "treated in the most inhuman manner."

A quarrel between two black cooks at Richmond Hotel ends with one man driving “a large carving knife into the breast” of the other, killing him.

James Garden killed A. Bales a white man because Bales wouldn’t let him rent his rig. While in jail a mob of 100 men lynch Garden.

A Washington D.C. police officer shoots and kills a black man, but the city Coroner declares that it is an “accidental shooting.”

The Columbia authorities arrest Major Barnard Evans on the suspected murder of Captain John Griffin, and “the news of the tragedy excited intense interest over the state.”

A judge rules that the shooting of black man by a fourteen-year-old white boy was an “accidental killing,” since the boy mistook the man for a turkey.

Black people did not receive fair trials and are presumed guilty without evidence.