“Yeah, they talked about hanging people. I know papa said he used to tell us about the first sheriff was a black sheriff in Tallahassee and said I imagine when they got ready to get rid of him or something they just come to talk with him about him. Just come in and he was sitting down to his table, but said they just come in and shot him in the mouth. He was sitting down to his table to eat and instead of just firing him if they didn’t want him or something like that they just came in and shot him. Shot him in the mouth into his head.”
– Harrieta Jefferson, reared in rural Leon County, FL, interviewed 1994 in Behind the Veil Collection