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James Scurry

Case from Georgetown, SC dated Sep 29, 1900

Victim Details

James C. Scurry

Male

White / Caucasian

Georgetown

SC

1900-09-29

37

James

Scurry

06/23/2026

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James C. Scurry, a 37-year-old white man serving as a law enforcement officer in Georgetown, South Carolina, lived in a community where tensions between Black and white residents simmered just beneath the surface at the turn of the twentieth century. Georgetown was a majority-Black town, its politics and daily life shaped by the unsettled legacy of Reconstruction and the newer, harsher structures of Jim Crow that were beginning to solidify across the South. Within this fraught atmosphere, Scurry ...
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