South Carolina Farmer Anthony P. Crawford Was Lynched By White Mob In 1916
In 1916, a white mob lynched Anthony P. Crawford, a 56-year-old Black farmer in South Carolina after he argued with a white merchant over the price of cottonseed. Crawford was assaulted, arrested, and placed in jail after a disagreement with a white store owner over the cost of cottonseed that brought him to the market […]