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Photos of the accused soldiers appearing in the Americus Times-Recorder on Feb. 7, 1921. Robert Lancaster, who was the first man tried in the case, is the most prominent photo in the center. (Screenshot courtesy of Library of Congress)
Twenty miles from a railroad, in a town whose only direct communication with the outside world is one private telephone, the most interesting case in Alabama s history is being tried
- Associated Press report from Hamilton, Alabama on Feb. 8, 1921.
TUSCALOOSA, AL The lynching of accused murderer and Walker County coal miner Willie Baird dominated newspaper headlines a century ago in January 1921, bringing nationwide interest to a case that would see nearly a dozen Alabama National Guardsmen from Tuscaloosa acquitted of first-degree murder. Baird s untimely and violent death also came amid a large-scale coal miner strike in Walker County that resulted in numerous deaths prior to ....

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