Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 8 May 1920

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

The men shot Simmons three times, cut out his tongue and told his son he had ten days to abandon the family property. The killers took possession of the land and an all-white jury later acquitted the only one of the six men to face trial for the murder.
(26 March 1944)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Saturday 8th of May 1920 106 years, 8 months and 26 days ago
Black train porter Henry Scott is riddled with forty or fifty bullets for insulting a young white woman in Tampa, Florida, United States.