William Thomas McMinn

William Thomas McMinn, a deputy sheriff in Madison County, Alabama, died on October 7, 1939, after walking into a crowded community dance with a warrant in his pocket and long-standing local tensions at his heels. He was a 55-year-old White/Caucasian man. The setting was described as a harvest-season gathering at a schoolhouse near Sugar Fork, where families came from miles around for music, tradition, and the crowning of a “Harvest Queen,” with votes bought in pennies and pride riding on th ...

Deputy Sheriff William Thomas McMinn