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Dendy was one of three black men lynched in South Carolina that year and was also the victim of Laurens County's last reported lynching. [30] Numerous black witnesses to Dendy's kidnapping from jail were threatened into silence or intimidated into not testifying by citizens or police, [19] to the point that some left the state entirely. [12]
The Ninety-Six District was given the counties of Abbeville, Edgefield, Laurens, Newberry, Spartanburg, and Union. [4] On February 19, 1791, the Ninety-Six District lost the land in the current Union, Spartanburg counties and the portion of Cherokee county within the district in the formation of Pinckney District. [5] [6]
A day after a South Carolina teen went missing, her body was found in a burned car. Now, two people have been arrested. After 18-year-old MyAngel Walker did not show up to work on Thursday, Dec ...
The murder of Kyle Dinkheller took place in Laurens County, Georgia, on Monday, January 12, 1998, when Dinkheller, a 22-year-old deputy sheriff, initiated a traffic stop with Andrew Howard Brannan, a 49-year-old Vietnam War veteran.
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
A female deputy employed by the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office who alleged she underwent an invasive strip search as part of her training has sued for sexual harassment, naming the sheriff, a ...
John Bolt Culbertson (September 16, 1908 – March 21, 1983) was a member of the South Carolina General Assembly, an advocate for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and one of the defense attorneys for the trial of the lynching of Willie Earle in Greenville, South Carolina.
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