BLACK HISTORY"
In 1904, Kitt Bookard, a 21-year-old tenant farmer went fishing with six white men. On the way home an argument ensued between Bookard and one of the white men who had earlier molested Bookard's younger sister, Bookard threatened to beat the man.
When the group returned to town, Bookard was promptly arrested for his impudence and when he could not pay the $5 fine, he was thrown in jail.
Later that day, a small group of white men went to the jailhouse and demanded that Bookard be released. They took him to the riverside, strung him up ( for a few hours-before cutting him down).
They scalped him, poked out his eyes, cut off his genitals, cut out his tongue and then tied him (he was reportedly still alive at this point) to a grate and threw him into the river.
The crime was so heinous that Governor Duncan Heywood was sickened when he heard the details but no one was ever brought to justice.
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