The Sheriff Peter Hagan standard for Civics, History, and fearful elected officials
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On March 1, 1923, just after 1 a.m., a Gainesville lynch mob arrived in Palatka to attack the Putnam County jail. I would bet much money that this mob included some of the same men who wiped out Rosewood three months earlier; but I don't know that with certainty.
The Sheriff Peter Hagan standard for Civics, History, and fearful elected officials
The Sheriff Peter Hagan standard for Civics…
The Sheriff Peter Hagan standard for Civics, History, and fearful elected officials
On March 1, 1923, just after 1 a.m., a Gainesville lynch mob arrived in Palatka to attack the Putnam County jail. I would bet much money that this mob included some of the same men who wiped out Rosewood three months earlier; but I don't know that with certainty.