On May 11, 1926, Henry Patterson walked toward the home of a white woman in LaBelle, Florida, and asked for a drink of water. Patterson was a 22 year old Black road construction worker who had arrived in the town only a few months earlier. He had no idea that this ordinary request would lead […] TalkAfricana
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