Word: backroad
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...they have engineered two typical lynchings in the last two months. The second and latest was a routine affair, but the first was, perhaps, a little more interesting. The negro defendants accused of crimes against whites were being taken by the police from Tuscaloosa to Decatur by a backroad, escorted by ten armed men in automobiles. When they reached the county line they were halted by a three-car party, armed, who removed the negroes from the escort and sent the sheriff and deputies back to town. The prisoners were stood up next to each other and shot. The firing...