On a spring evening in Montgomery, Alabama, Police Officer Raymond Mathis was on duty, a dedicated guardian of the city. At 36 years of age, he was a male officer serving his community. That fateful night, on Thursday, April 30, 1936, Officer Mathis and a fellow officer were dispatched to a residence at 820 High Street. Their objective was to question a man who had recently been released from a chain gang.
As the two officers arrived on their motorcycles, they observed the subject of thei
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