In the summer of 1960 in Monroe, Louisiana, Marshall Alfred Johnson, a 19-year-old Black male, worked a demanding job cleaning septic tanks for a white man named Zennie William Fuller. Fuller, who was 40 at the time and also known as Robert, had a reputation for mistreating and cheating his employees out of their wages. That July, Johnson and four of his young, Black co-workers, Earnest McFarland, Charlie Willis, and brothers Albert and David Pitts, were all owed back pay by Fuller.
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