Hattie carroll biography
Hattie carroll biography
Lonesome death of hattie carroll.
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Editor’s note: This story contains profane and racist language in direct quotes and a description of physical violence.
On Valentine’s Day 1963, Rev.
Theodore Jackson, Sr., stood over the body of fifty-one-year-old Baltimore native Hattie Carroll and addressed 1,600 mourners at the Gillis Church in West Baltimore, where she had been a deacon and member of the choir
“This one death will mean more to the city of Baltimore than any other,” he declared.
“I do think the ministers of this city, the doctors, the lawyers, all people should come together as never before and let people know that colored citizens are not going to stand for certain things.”
Eighteen weeks later, twenty-four-year-old William Zantzinger stood on trial for Carroll’s murder.
Judge David Kenneth McLaughlin said that “outside elements” had special interest in the case but that “none of those elements will affect us in our decision.” Mc