Historical Newspaper: The Bakers Off to Boston
Subject
Frazier Baker
Title
Historical Newspaper: The Bakers Off to Boston
Date
08/11/1899
Type
Historical Newspaper
Description
Note: See 1st column, 1st paragraph. Some language may be offensive to readers.
Chronicling America features a 1899 article in the The Wilson Times newspaper on the arrival of Lillian Clayton Jewett, a White woman from Boston, MA, who offered refuge to the surviving members of Frazier Baker's family. Baker was the first Black postmaster in Lake City, South Carolina who was murdered, along with his one year old daughter, in a racial terror attack by armed White men in 1898. According to the article, Jewett, her mother and a White journalist came to Charleston to help relocate the family to Boston. According to the article, Baker's wife and surviving five children accompanied Jewett back to Boston. The article also provides a perspective on why a local Black minister, Reverend J. L. Dart, questioned Jewett's intentions and opposed the family's relocation.
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Chronicling America features a 1899 article in the The Wilson Times newspaper on the arrival of Lillian Clayton Jewett, a White woman from Boston, MA, who offered refuge to the surviving members of Frazier Baker's family. Baker was the first Black postmaster in Lake City, South Carolina who was murdered, along with his one year old daughter, in a racial terror attack by armed White men in 1898. According to the article, Jewett, her mother and a White journalist came to Charleston to help relocate the family to Boston. According to the article, Baker's wife and surviving five children accompanied Jewett back to Boston. The article also provides a perspective on why a local Black minister, Reverend J. L. Dart, questioned Jewett's intentions and opposed the family's relocation.
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Publisher
The Library of Congress - Chronicling America (The Wilson Times, NC)
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“Historical Newspaper: The Bakers Off to Boston,” Project Reconstruction, accessed May 7, 2024, https://projectreconstructionus.com/items/show/863.