Lynching & racial terror
The killing of Postmaster Frazier Baker and his daughter Julia
22 February 1898The Lake City post office, SC
A mob burned the Lake City post office with the postmaster's family inside, killing Frazier Baker and his infant daughter Julia, because a Black man had been given a federal appointment.
- People killed
- 2
The marker sits at the centre of the place named, because the records do not fix a single spot.