Remembering Bowman Cook and John Morine, the Black Veterans Lynched in Jacksonville in 1919
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On September 8, 1919, two Black World War I veterans, Bowman Cook and John Morine, were lynched in Jacksonville, Florida. A White mob took the two men from the Duval County Jail and drove them to the edge of Evergreen Cemetery, where they were shot and killed. Their deaths came at a time when racial […]
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