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Columbus Lewis
April 23, 1898

Columbus Lewis was murdered on April 23, 1898 after quarreling with a white man. After the argument, a mob of twelve whites gunned him down and left him for dead. A local white physician refused to treat his wounds and he bled to death.

 
     
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