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The hidden story of when two Black college students were tarred and feathered

  • Written by Karen Sieber, Humanities Specialist, McGillicuddy Humanities Center, University of Maine
imageNewspaper coverage of the incident is hard to find.New York Herald

One cold April night in 1919, at around 2 a.m., a mob of 60 rowdy white students at the University of Maine surrounded the dorm room of Samuel and Roger Courtney in Hannibal Hamlin Hall. The mob planned to attack the two Black brothers from Boston in retaliation for what a newspaper...

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