Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bloodthirst hankered for three weeks in Vernon and Rapides Parishes, La., after the killing of Deputy Sheriff J. Frank Phillips by William Blackman, black man. Police slew Blackman in turn, promptly. Then they protected Blackman's brothers, Lee and Dave Blackman, by locking them in the Leesville jail...
...customary thing took place. A score of armed men stepped out of ambush. The deputies were ordered to move on, which they did. Then the fusillade, the guilty silence, the "discovery" of two stiff black shapes several hours later...
Other Negroes considered Ben Bess a black fool. He ought to have some sensibility about the folks he took up with, they said. Besides, fooling with white women never got a Negro anywhere but into trouble...
...stands watching Meyer that afternoon were several men who had driven racing cars when they were younger. Of these the richest and most noted was a gentleman of French descent with a spike of a mustache, a lined face, thick neck, and popping black eyes-Louis Chevrolet, godfather of an automobile...
Bishop Rummel, whose churchly duties have hitherto been confined to metropolitan regions, must have had strange feelings of dismay mixed with his anticipations of the journey that lay before him. In Manhattan, a pastor's flock often contains a goodly proportion of black sheep; but on Nebraska's plains, what agile and goatish rams must gambol and run; what wild shy ewes upon its crooked paths! Nonetheless, when the rites of consecration were over, Bishop Rummel made a short, genial speech, then conferred upon his mother, who was still crying while she knelt, his first Bishop...