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In Texas, eight men snatched a Black minister from his home and put a rope around his neck, planning to kill him. But the minister called out to his neighbors, who rallied to his defense and scared the gang away. Whites also lynched by hanging another Texas a minister because he intervened in attacks on two Black schoolteachers.21
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction
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