Salvador Cortés Rubio was relieving himself on the side of Highway 77 in Ardmore, Oklahoma, on June 7, 1931, when a car pulled up behind his Ford coupe. Two white men got out of the car and asked Cortés what he was doing. Although Cortés lived in Kansas, he knew enough about the South to button his pants and run back toward the car, where his 18-year-old brother and another friend were waiting. Just as Cortés Rubio got back to the Ford, he heard two shots and then the words, “Put your hands up.”