Post office could be named for lynched black postmaster

LAKE CITY, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s congressional delegation wants a post office named to honor a 19th-century postmaster who was lynched because he was black and refused to resign.
The Post and Courier reports that the entire delegation co-sponsored a bill to name Lake City’s post office after Frazier B. Baker.
Baker was a schoolmaster in Effingham when President William McKinley named him Lake City’s postmaster in 1897.
An intimidation campaign began almost immediat