Their excuse for such drastic action was that Benjamin Snow, a colored man running a restaurant in the city, had made unbecoming remarks about the wives of the white mechanics.[3] John F.Cook, one of the most influential educators produced in the District of Columbia, was driven out of the city by this mob.

He then taught at Lancaster, Pa.
[Footnote 1: _Ibid._, p.

211.] [Footnote 2: _Ibid._, p.

211.] [Footnote 3: _Special Report of the U.S.Com.

of Ed._, p.