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February 21st

1 event recorded on The Ledger.

  1. 1898
    The Record

    Lake City postmaster lynched

    A white mob in Lake City, South Carolina, sets fire to the home of Frazier Baker, the town's Black postmaster, and shoots the family as they flee. Baker and his infant daughter Julia are killed. Ida B. Wells leads a delegation to President McKinley, but no one is ever convicted.

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