Killing of Joseph Roland in South Carolina in 1941
Incident
Joseph Roland (1920 - 1941), a laborer, was killed by James T. Harris in Charleston, South Carolina. Harris, who was a driller at the navy yard, claimed that a Black man on the street “made a pass” at his 12 year-old niece. Harris and his brother chased the Black man but lost him. The brothers then walked back to a café. There, a fight ensued between the brothers and a group of Black men in which Harris stabbed Roland. A coroner reported that Roland was not the man who had been chased by the brothers. The Harris brothers were arrested.
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