In the early hours of August 9, 1908, Otha Zeiglar Dent, a 26-year-old man from Birmingham, Alabama, was riding a special passenger train headed toward the Blocton mines, part of a guarded movement meant to deliver non-union workers into a tense strike zone. Dent served as a deputy sheriff, and he was not alone: the train carried other deputies alongside members of the Alabama National Guard, all braced for trouble as the rails cut through the dark countryside.
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