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− | '''David Alexander''' was a black man killed by a lynch-mob on [[April 5]], [[1909]] | + | '''David Alexander''' was a black man killed by a lynch-mob on [[April 5]], [[1909]]<ref>[http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Base/8507/NLPlaces1.htm]</ref>, after he allegedly confessed to killing a policeman. Unlike the lynching of [[Leander Shaw]] the previous summer, this lynching apparently had little popular support and was in fact sharply denounced by some citizens, including the Rabbi Schwartz of [[Temple Beth-El]].<ref>''Emergence of a City in the Modern South: Pensacola 1900-1945''. James R. McGovern (1976).</ref> |
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==References== | ==References== |