Killing of Wyart Trueblood in Florida
Incident
Wyart Trueblood, a sharecropper, was killed in 1946 by Ben Bryant and his son Keith Bryant in Gadsden County, Florida. Trueblood, who was a sharecropper on the Bryant farm, went to the farm to retrieve his syrup cans. The Bryants blocked the gate and forbade Trueblood to move his cans. When Trueblood refused to give up the syrup, Keith Bryant shot him and Ben Bryant beat him, claiming self-defense. Grand jury declined to indict.
advocacy group resources
- News article from the New Journal and Guide about the killing of Wyatt Trueblood, and a jury's failure to indict his killer : March 22, 1947
- News article from the Chicago Defender about the killing of Wyatt Trueblood : February 22, 1947
- News article from the New Journal and Guide about the killing of Wyatt Trueblood : February 8, 1947
- News article from the Cleveland Call and Post about the killing of Wyatt Trueblood, and a jury's failure to indict his killer : March 22, 1947
- News article from the Baltimore Afro-American about the killing of Wyatt Trueblood, and a jury's failure to indict his killer : March 22, 1947
- News article from the Baltimore Afro-American about the killing of Wyatt Trueblood : February 8, 1947
- News article from the Cleveland Call and Post about the killing of Wyatt Trueblood : February 8, 1947
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