Wyatt Outlaw, a prominent Black leader of the Union League and the first African American town commissioner in Graham, North Carolina, was lynched by the Ku Klux Klan. His murder, carried out in front of the Alamance County Courthouse, was intended to intimidate Black citizens and suppress Reconstruction-era political progress. Outlaw’s death became a symbol of the violent backlash against Black political engagement during Reconstruction.
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