What the records say
- When
- 22 Feb 1898
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 33.87° N, 79.76° W
- Description
- lynching in 1898, in Lake City, South Carolina, United States
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: shootings and murdersWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A mob in Lake City, South Carolina, sets fire to the home of the city's African-American postmaster, F.C. Baker, killing him and his infant son”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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