Jesse Thompson, a Black man from Harriston, Mississippi, was one of several local residents killed when the small railroad town erupted into chaos on Sunday, September 28, 1913. Contemporary reports place his death squarely within what newspapers would call a “race riot,” a morning of gunfire and panic that shattered the normal quiet of Jefferson County. Lists of the dead from that day preserve his name among the victims, but offer no information about his age, family, or occupation, only th
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