In the autumn of 1927, the life of Leonard Woods, a 35-year-old Black coal miner, came to a brutal and tragic end in Wise, Virginia. The series of events that led to his death began with an accusation of murder. Woods, along with two Black women, Susan Armister and Anna Mae Emery, was accused of killing Harshall Deaton, a white mine foreman, in Jenkins, Kentucky, on the night of November 27th. Reports from the time suggest the confrontation arose after Deaton, who the trio may have mistaken for
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