Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honest eye. The villagers mistrust her independence; they get drunk at her wedding but think her husband a queer, weak sort of man for her to pick. They are enlightened and glad when she is pregnant before her time. Her lover comes to the fair; there is a brawl, her husband is killed. Effie marries the schoolteacher, who has always loved her; a few months later her child is born, but it is weakly, and soon dies. Then the supposed murderer of her first husband is captured; Effie helps him escape, the village turns on her, stones her to death...
...Manhattan one Paul Arcabasio, 25, went to dance at the Beldon Social Club. There one of his friends declared that he was going to kiss a girl, did so. This caused a brawl during which Paul Arcabasio and his companions departed. Three hours later he felt pains, examined himself, discovered that he had been stabbed. His friends took him to a hospital where a day later he died...
...lynchings in 1929, six victims were taken from the hands of the Law. Offenses charged: rape, 3; writing insulting notes, 2; murder, 1; wounding a white man in a brawl, 1; wounding a law officer, 2; unreported...