In the winter of 1900, a young White / Caucasian man named Marvin H. Durham, at the age of 21, served as a Deputy Constable in Lauderdale County, Tennessee. On January 9th, he was tasked with assisting Constable W. D. Turner in transporting an inmate from the town jail in Durhamville to the county jail in Ripley. The inmate had been taken into custody earlier that day for his refusal to comply with a county health ordinance mandating vaccination.
The situation escalated when the inmate re
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