On February 22, 1898, Frazier Baker, a black postmaster in a predominantly white hamlet of Lake City, South Carolina woke up to discover a raging fire had been deliberately set in the back of the area of his small wooden home and the community's post office. Baker along with his wife and children tried unsuccessfully […]
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