de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception
On this day, 115 years ago, a Black man and his family of 7 were attacked because local Whites did not agree that Frazier Baker deserved to be the town's postmaster. His house was set afire and an angry mob killed him and his infant daughter as they tried to escape. Just as tragic would be the eventual deaths of his remaining children from tuberculosis. The Baker family would received justice for their losses.
his family is pictured - a year after the murders
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