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A fellow newspaper editor from Florida praises John Mitchell Jr.’s influence on the New South, especially for his role in the Lunenburg case.

Mr. McGilvray-Cox, a “colored” man, invents a “perfect” stationary engine.

A White man murders a black man to get out of paying him five cents.

A black man is held accountable for his attempted lynching at his home.

A jury votes to hang a black man for robbery after being rushed by the judge to finish.

A jury votes to hang a black man for robbery after being rushed by the judge to finish.

A black man, who brutally murders a white woman, is captured in Savannah and, while returning to South Carolina, is taken by an angry white mob and lynched.

A mob of black men take a black man from jail with no resistance and lynch him before he is able to go on trial.

A man, who is accused of outraging a white woman, is lynched upon his arrival into town.

A white man shoots a black man in the street on seemingly false allegations and he walks free.