Arthur St. Clair (minister)

Arthur W. St. Clair (died 1877) was an African-American community leader in Brooksville, Florida, who was murdered in 1877 by a mob days after he presided over the marriage of a black man and a white woman in the area that is now Dade City, Florida.[1][2] Controversy followed as efforts to investigate the white men accused of killing him were stymied. The courthouse was destroyed in a fire.[3]

  1. ^ "Hernando's 100-year-old courthouse part of long, slow journey to justice". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  2. ^ Congressional Record, V. 153, Part 19, October 1, 2007 to October 16, 2007. Government Printing Office.
  3. ^ Former Slave Is Sixth Great Brooksvillian; City honors the slain founder of a church and a school St. Petersburg Times on Oct. 4, 2007 by LOGAN NEILL