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Hamburg Massacre and Hamburgs Black Leaders Remembered
Wayne O Bry ant and Murray recount Hamburg during Reconstruction when black politicians and pastors rose to power. They describe the Hamburg Massacre of July 1876, white reactions, later Red Shirt violence, and the killings of six Black men. A monument to Thomas Meriwether and a 2011 marker honor the event, with plans for a unified Hamburg marker and memorials for victims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamburg
Murray
Wayne O’bryant
Prince Rivers
Providence Baptist Church
John Gardner
Aiken County
Samuel Lee
General Assembly of
South Carolina
O’bryant
Adams
Thomas Butler
Henry Gettsen
Matthew Butler
Edgefield
Doc (Adams
Rivers
Thomas McKie Meriwether
Butler
James Cook
Allan Attaway
Albert Myniart
Moses Parks
David Rivers
Hampton Stephens
Meriwether
Lockaway Hall
J.C. Calhoun Park
North Augusta
Heritage Council of
First Providence Baptist Church
Hamburg Park
Heritage Council