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TIL of the lynching of Postmaster Frazier B. Baker and his infant daughter. Frazier was appointed postmaster of Lake City, South Carolina in 1897. Local whites objected and had undertaken a campaign to force his removal. When efforts failed to dislodge Baker, a mob attacked him and his family.

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