In the late summer of 1903, a violent series of events unfolded in Randolph, Alabama, culminating in the death of a man identified as Thomas Ebbett on August 17th. The catalyst for this bloodshed occurred two days prior, on August 15th, at the property of Aaron Sledge, a local African American man. A group of eleven white men, after completing road repairs near Beaver Creek, approached Sledge’s watermelon patch and, despite being given permission to have some, began to indiscriminately destroy
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