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Days of Fear: A Lynching in St. Petersburg
By Jon Wilson and Jane A. McNeil
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Days of Fear exposes the shocking story of a gruesome 1914 murder in St. Petersburg, Florida and the calculated lynching of the Black man accused. Who killed Frank Sherman with a shotgun blast inches from his head? What in the restless photographer's life led to his bloody end? And why
did powerful men decide John Evans had to die for the
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Jon Wilson
Jon Wilson is currently a communications consultant for the Florida Humanities Council in St. Petersburg. He has served as a journalist for the St. Petersburg Times, Clearwater Sun and St. Petersburg Evening Independent from 1973 to 2007. He is the co-author or author of several local-interest books.
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