Sergeant Wilbur Little Beaten to Death in Georgia for Wearing Military Uniform

Sergeant Wilbur Little returned to Blakely, Georgia from WWI in his military uniform. Local white men warned him not to wear the uniform in public. He continued to wear it. A white mob beat him to death. His murder was among the most documented of the cases of Black veterans killed for wearing their uniform after WWI — the uniform symbolized the claim to equal citizenship that white Southerners were determined to deny. No one was prosecuted for his murder.