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Updated: May 28, 2025

While thus engaged he was attacked by Etheridge, the Democratic manager of another precinct. The Negroes came to Tolbert's defense, and in the fight that followed Etheridge was killed and Tolbert wounded. John Tolbert, coming up, was filled with buckshot, and a younger member of the family was also hurt. The Negroes were at length overpowered and the Tolberts forced to flee.

Benjamin Griffith Brawley - A Social History of the American Negro: Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including: A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia

In the latter state, at Phoenix, in Greenwood County, on November 8 and for some days thereafter, the Tolberts, a well-known family of white Republicans, were attacked by mobs and barely escaped alive. R.R. Tolbert was a candidate for Congress and also chairman of the Republican state committee.

Benjamin Griffith Brawley - A Social History of the American Negro: Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including: A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia