In December 1877, the white shopkeeper Jacob Shootman was murdered in his shop nearby East Hickman on the Tates Creek Pike. Over the next month, Shootman’s murder would serve as the pretext for four lynchings that took place in the southeast Fayette County community.
“Proximity” tells the story of the trial into the last of those lynchings, the January 16 shooting of Tom Turner by a group of men who broke into his cabin and shot him in sight of his wife and baby child.
“Proximity” is the second part of the Fayette Soil Project.
View part one here.
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