HOMER G. PHILLIPS AND LLOYD GAINES

https://blackpast.org/aah/phillips-homer-g-1880-1931 This prominent black man, a Howard University, Bison brother, Homer G. Phillips, Esq., was murdered in broad open daylight on a street,in June 1931, in St. Louis. No one was ever prosecuted although two men (race not specified) were quickly arrested and released for lack of evidence by prosecutors. He had successfully steered a $1 million dollar bond issue that he had promoted toward the construction of a black hospital, as originally promised, rather than for a white one, as certain others had wanted. His yet unsolved murder reminds me of the "disappearance" of Lloyd Gaines in 1939, after his U.S. Supreme Court-ordered admission to segregated, University of Missouri School of Law.