On a dark December night in 1957, when Blanche Knowles – a married white woman from a prominent citrus-growing family in Okahumpka, Fla. – reported that she had been “raped by a Negro … with bushy hair,” the response from local authorities was…
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On a dark December night in 1957, when Blanche Knowles – a married white woman from a prominent citrus-growing family in Okahumpka, Fla. – reported that she had been “raped by a Negro … with bushy hair,” the response from local authorities was…