Trymaine Lee, an Award-Winning Journalist, Wrote About a Black Man

Multiple Choice

Trymaine Lee, an award-winning journalist, wrote about a Black man who leased a plantation, owned a general store, gas station, a catering business, farmer (cotton, corn, sugar cane) , and owned a small fleet of trucks that made deliveries. He also employed 40 people. In 1947, he was murdered by a group of White men saying, "He was too successful to be a Negro." What was his name?

A) Emmanuel Burrell
B) Elijah Baron
C) Edward Boulé
D) Elmore Bolling