DEDICATION

Victims of Racial Murder

Reference Sources

Freedmen’s Bureau Records: Clinton Drake, Ruth Jones, Frank McGhee, Tom Kelley, Alf Rainey, John Courtney, Marvin Mayberry, Tom Jourdon, Frank Hughes, John Warner, unnamed child, unnamed man.

Report of Evidence Taken Tennessee General Assembly Senate Committee 1868:

Thomas Phelps, Israel Webster, Tom Galloway, Thomas Rainey

Maury County Court Records: Gilbert Dowell

The Color of the Law by Gail O’Brien, Cordie Cheek Files, Columbia Daily Herald, New York Times: Cordie Cheek

The Color of the Law, A Study of Mob Action in the South by John Steelman, Columbia Daily Herald, Nashville Tennessean, Chicago Tribune, New York Times: Henry Choate

Columbia Daily Herald, Maury County Court Records, Nashville Tennessean: Green Wells

The Color of the Law, No More Social Lynchings by Robert Ikard, Columbia Daily Herald, Nashville Tennessean: Robert Wilson

The Color of the Law, Lynching and Frame-Up in Tennessee by Robert Minor, Columbia Daily Herald, Nashville Tennessean, Devil in the Garden by Thurgood Marshall: William Gordon, James Johnson