Arrested and accused of attempted rape of his employer’s two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Allen Brooks was hidden in area jails by Sheriff Arthur L. Ledbetter to protect Brooks from vigilante violence. On the morning of his arraignment a large…

Jane was an African American woman born around 1800. The first legal record of Jane was when she was sold by Edward Welborn to John Young. The Bill of Sale included the following wording: "I have this day sold to John Young, a negro woman named Jane,…