The Terrible Death of William James
Ten thousand white men, women, and children came for the life of 24-year-old William “Froggie” James on a damp November evening in 1909. These ten thousand people weren’t monsters. They were gamblers, shopkeepers, politicians, prostitutes, farmers, and schoolteachers. They were landlords and bankers. They were children in scuffed shoes, young mothers cradling babies, and old men clutching canes.
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