In the small, historically black town of Hobson City, Alabama, the life of its first Chief of Police, James H. Durand, came to an end under circumstances that remain largely untold in publicly available records. A man of 56, he was a figure of authority in a community that had been established just a few years prior, in 1899, as the first municipality in Alabama to be entirely governed by African Americans.
Details surrounding the specific events of Chief Durand's death are scarce. One hi
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