Statesboro

Conditions at Statesboro are, perhaps, typical of those in most Southern towns.

All the churches of Statesboro came out strongly for law and order.

Many women in the city of Statesboro dare not go into their backyards after dark.

But what of the large Negro population of Statesboro during all this excitement?

About six miles from the city of Statesboro lived Henry Hodges, a well-to-do planter.