Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1909 — RACES CLOSE TO A CLASH [ARTICLE]

RACES CLOSE TO A CLASH

Trouble Follow* the Ordering of Negro From Georgia Store. Rome, Ga„ Aug. 3.—Galveston Perkins, a negro, enraged because ordered from the store of A. R. Wright, assembled a mob of fifteen of his kinsmen and assaulted Harper Wright a short distance from his father’s establishment. An armed posse captured Garvin Perkins, a cousin of the mob leader. There were threats of lynching which caused talk of a general clash of races. Negro women, as well as the men, quit work, but finally were driven to their homes.