Black was a Lanier High School star athlete in baseball, basketball, football and track. He played football and basketball at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Auburn University) where he studied aeronautical engineering. He became one of the first men to join the State Highway Patrol after its organization in 1937. With the ranking of Corporal, he was the first Georgia State Patrol trooper to be killed on duty, tragically gunned down by a man he was citing for a mere speeding offense. He was 29 years old.
(1911-1940) (Woodbine, lot 18, row D)
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