Annie Wiseburg was a 76-year-old white / Caucasian woman living in Aiken County, South Carolina, when violence tore through the quiet routines of her life on September 28, 1946. In burial records her name appears as Annie Gilbert Weisberg, with her death recorded that day in Aiken and her grave placed in the Sons of Israel Cemetery in the county, a small Jewish burial ground on the edge of town.
On that September day, a man named Monroe Hickson came to her home. Contemporary and later ac
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