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ILLUSTRATIONS James Stephenson, 8 Map of downtown Columbia, Tennessec, 14 Whites gathered in Columbia on February 25,16 State guardsman turns back mob, 23 Hollis Reynolds after his seizure by highway patrolmcn, 24 John Blackwell after beating, 26 Black Columbians being marched to jail, 27 Saul Blair's barbershop after the raid, 29 First block of East Eighth Street on February 26,66 Gladys Stephenson, Maurice Weaver, and Saul Blair, 93 Jesse "Peter" Harris bcing searched, 96 Arrestees after the patrol raid on February 26,107 White civilians on the road on February 25,132 The four Columbia police officers who were fired upon, 145 SheriffJames J. Underwood Sr., 152 Threc young members of the State Guard, 160 State Guard Commander Jacob McGavock Dickinson Jr., 161 Highway Patrol officers search men from the Lodge Hall, 163 Highway patrolmen and armed white civilians, 170 Morton's Funcral Parlor after the raid, 171 Columbia policeman Bernard O. Stofel, 198 NAACP defense counsel and five of thc defendants, 222 Z. Alexander Looby, Maurice Weaver, and Leon Ransom, 240 Lawrenceburg jurors, 243 ...

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