At 1am on this day in 1898, in Lake City, in the coastal plains of central South Carolina, famous for its strawberries and tobacco, a mob of white people torches the home of Frazier B. Baker, local U.S. Postmaster, while he, his wife and five kids are asleep. Local whites are furious that Black people are being appointed to government positions by the outgoing McKinley administration. They fire guns into the burning house, killing Frazier and his 2-yr-old daughter, Julia, and wounding other family members. A trial with an all-white jury ends in mistrial despite defendants admitting to their crimes, and nobody is punished. The St. James AME Church that is constructed on the site 20 years later, is also burned down by white supremacists in 1955.