Bloodless Riot at Santa Fe (1869)
Last Saturday the teacher of a negro school at Santa Fe, a colored man named Aleck FEW, had a celebration on the occasion of the end of the session, accompanied by a drum and fife, and attempted to march through the streets of the town. When they came to the Main street of the town, however, they were stopped by several white men, who turned around, and as they started off they gave three cheers for Aleck FEW. They marched up to where their dinner was spread, and were enjoying themselves when the same white men who had stopped them went up and said they were ordered to have the drum stop beating. The music was squelched, and the enjoyment of the negroes broken up. About nightfall one or two of the white men threw a few rocks at a small cluster of negroes, but none was hurt. The negroes behaved peaceably, and we regret that the whites did not do the same.
The Columbia herald. (Columbia, Tenn.), 13 Aug. 1869. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033386/1869-08-13/ed-1/seq-3/>