Jewett's Influence On Society

A young white northern woman, Lillian Clayton Jewett, also known as the modern Harriet Beecher Stowe by her followers, held meetings and campaigned to save the remaining Baker family from the white cruel south. After the trial was conducted, she headed south in hopes of convincing the family to move, of which she did. While this was taking place, President McKinley was bashed for electing Baker, a black republican into a hateful white democratic society, and upon his death not even making a statement. When arriving in Boston, people like William Lloyd Garrison ll, which was the son of an abolitionist, started to raise money so that the Baker’s could afford a place to live. Finally, the family had escaped the corrupt South, but in the years to come the family slowly died off, and in 1942 Mrs. Baker returned and died in 1947 only miles from where the lynching had taken place (Carter, David C.).
In the 1950s the city experienced another large racial moment. According to the Jet, “S.C. Whites Burn Church To Chase Minister.” The town’s White Supremacist were back on the move, when in 1950 a minister of an AME Church, was forced out of the city. The church he ministered at was built in the exact same location as the post office of which Frazier Baker was murdered in nearly fifty years before. This outrage towards the church was considered “the first instance of such desecration to a Negro church in the South since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed school segregation