LAKE CITY, S.C. — South Carolina’s congressional delegation wants a post office to be named in honour of a 19th-century postmaster who was lynched because he was black and refused to resign. The state’s entire Washington delegation co-sponsored a bill to name Lake City’s post office after Frazier B. Baker, The Post and Courier reported . Baker was a schoolmaster in Effingham when President William McKinley named him Lake City’s postmaster in 1897. That summer, he was shot after refusing to appoint a white deputy to do post office business. On Feb. 22, 1898, at about 1 a.m., an armed mob of whites set fire to the house and post office, then began shooting into the house.

Source: National Post January 01, 2019 19:19 UTC