Governor Studies Report On Emelle Racial Disorder

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: The Dothan Eagle
Place of publication: Dothan, Alabama
Date of publication: 7/18/1930 0:00
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GOVERNOR STUDIES REPORT ON EMELLE RACIAL DISORDER — (Continued from page one) ble are in Kilby prison, the state penitentiary here, for safekeeping. Authorities are continuing their search for three others, John and Ollis and their father, Tom, for participating in the difficulty that precipitated the outbreak. Two white men, Grover Boyd and Charlie Marrs, were killed. Esau Robertson was lynched, his uncle, John Newton Robertson, was shot to death and his home burned, and two other negroes killed when they failed to obey commands of possement to halt. GOVERNOR STUDIES REPORT ON EMELLE RACIAL DISORDER — (Continued from page one) ble are in Kilby prison, the state penitentiary here, for safekeeping. Authorities are continuing their search for three others, John and Ollis and their father, Tom, for participating in the difficulty that precipitated the outbreak. Two white men, Grover Boyd and Charlie Marrs, were killed. Esau Robertson was lynched, his uncle, John Newton Robertson, was shot to death and his home burned, and two other negroes killed when they failed to obey commands of possement to halt.