In the heart of the Mississippi Delta, in the small cotton town of Drew, a dispute between a plantation manager and a sharecropper on December 14, 1923, erupted into violence that would leave multiple men dead. W. T. Saunders, a 45-year-old white male, was fatally shot at his home. The man responsible was Joe Pullen, an African-American sharecropper who had gotten into a disagreement with Saunders over a debt.
Accounts of the initial confrontation vary. Some suggest that Saunders went to
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