Narrative about Jack Turner, freedman of Choctaw County, during Reconstruction.
Jack Turner was allegedly the leader of a plot to massacre the white residents of Choctaw County in 1882. He was apprehended and lynched before the plot unfolded. Folder contains 5 pages of narrative compiled for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late 1930s.rY!- -~~£~r(~) ___WPA Alabama...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | Jack Turner was allegedly the leader of a plot to massacre the white residents of Choctaw County in 1882. He was apprehended and lynched before the plot unfolded. Folder contains 5 pages of narrative compiled for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late 1930s.rY!-
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___WPA Alabama Writers Project
EX SLAVES TALES/Negro Lore -
Choctaw county #6
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