Word: bayou
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the body of Leon McAtee, a Negro tenant farmer, was found floating in a bayou one day last July, five white men were charged with his murder (TIME, Aug. 12). Last week, at Lexington, their trial was held. The judge freed two; the jury took four minutes to acquit the others...
...that afternoon four men going down a path to fish for bass in Dorcheat Bayou found John Johnson. Somebody had lashed him good; you could see the marks on him from head to foot. It looked as though they'd just naturally whipped him to death...
...trail of lynch law led from the mob murder of four Negroes on a lonely Georgia roadside (TIME, Aug. 5) to a Mississippi bayou deep in the land of Bilbo. There it was marked by the battered corpse of a Negro tenant farmer floating in the scum...
...inch-thick unstranded rope the white men in the pasture took turns at flogging their prisoner. McAtee's wife, watching from a clump of bushes, finally saw her husband doubled up in a truck heading down the road. When the body of Leon McAtee floated up in the bayou later, it was 60 miles from the scene of the flogging...
...newcomer to prefabs, Cajun Jack is no newcomer to the plywood and lumber industry. He has been in & out of it ever since he took solemn leave of the seven pigs, two mules, 37 chickens and 13 human beings with whom he had shared an abandoned boxcar on Teche Bayou and set out, at 12, to fend for himself. He became a lumber grader, a Wells-Fargo messenger, a medicine-show spieler in "Tincup, Miss.", a silo builder in Montana, a potato digger in Idaho, a sheepherder in Colorado, before he again settled down in lumber...