Belated Honors for Federal Agent Lynched in Post-Reconstruction Mississippi
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com It took a while — a very long while. The first African-American federal law enforcement officer to be killed in the line of duty after Reconstruction was in 1883. He was lynched by a bloodthirsty mob of 200 townspeople in Mississippi. Now, more than a century later, the life and service…