The assault and murder of a white woman in the community of Catcher in Arkansas ignited a race riot. On December 28, 1923, Effie Latimer (age twenty-five) was reported by newspapers the next morning as being raped and murdered. She had been shot in the back with a shotgun, and clubbed over the head with […]
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