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Sam Carter allegedly in response to a claim that a white woman, Fannie Taylor, in nearby Sumner had been beaten and possibly raped by a Black drifter. When Black citizens defended themselves against further attack, several hundred Whites organized to comb the countryside hunting for Black residents
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