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At this intersection on November 12, 1914, John Evans, a black laborer from Dunnellon, Florida, was lynched after being condemned by a secret council of fifteen of St. Petersburg's most influential citizens and then turned over to a mob of fifteen hundred white residents, who murdered him.
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St. Petersburg, Florida · United States
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