In the summer of 1960 in Monroe, Louisiana, a dispute over unpaid wages culminated in a tragic loss of life for Albert Pitts, an African-American man. On the morning of July 13, Pitts, his brother David, and their co-workers Marshall Johns, Earnest McFarland, and Willie Charlie Gibson went to the home of their white employer, Zennie William Fuller, to collect the money they were owed for their work cleaning septic tanks.
An argument had reportedly taken place the day before between Fuller
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