Frazier B. Baker, a Black postmaster appointed by President McKinley, was lynched by a white mob in Lake City, South Carolina. The mob set his home on fire and shot him as he tried to flee with his family. His wife was wounded, and their six children were fired upon—his infant daughter Julia was killed, and the others were maimed or traumatized for life. This brutal act of racial violence highlighted the deadly resistance to Black federal appointments and spurred early civil rights advocacy efforts.
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