On 13 August 1955, Lamar Smith, a Black civil rights activist and World War I veteran, was murdered by racists on the lawn of the Lincoln County Courthouse in Mississippi. Despite there being large numbers of white witnesses, including the sheriff who saw a local man covered with blood leaving the scene, no one was charged with any crime.
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"Lamar Smith Murdered in Mississippi, 1955." Historianspeaks, August 13, 2025. https://historianspeaks.org/blog/lamar-smith-murdered-in-mississippi-1955.
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