Wade Perrin

Death by Force

On the evening of October 20, 1870, Representative Wade Perrin, a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, was assassinated in Joanna, South Carolina. Perrin, a Republican and an African American, was targeted by a group of white men affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan. This tragic event occurred in rural southeastern Laurens County, a region fraught with racial tensions during the Reconstruction era.

Perrin had just been re-elected to a second term in the legislature the day b ...Read More

Representative Wade Perrin - National Gun Violence Memorial

Days of Terror in Laurens County, SC - Sunday in the South

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