The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw by Sylvester Allen HARDBACK 9781469689999

The University of North Carolina Press

The Legend of Wyatt OutlawFrom Reconstruction Through Black Lives Matter\nAuthor(s): Sylvester Allen, Belle Boggs\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469689999, 978-1469689999\nSynopsis\nWyatt Outlaws story was one of Black success: He was a Union League leader, business owner, and the first Black town constable and commissioner in Graham, a small town located in North Carolinas Alamance County. But in 1870, Outlaw was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan, setting off a dramatic series of events: more lynchings, a Republican-led war against the Klan, and a white supremacist crackdown on Black political power that continues today. As a child, Black activist, musician, and Graham native Sylvester Allen frequently passed the site where Outlaw was killed without ever learning his name. Belle Boggs, white and also from the South, taught high school in Alamance County without knowing Outl.