Word: faggot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rope & Faggot, which he wrote in France on a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927-28, Author White maintained that the long tradition of U. S. vigilantism has finally narrowed down to the Southern Negro, not to protect Southern womanhood as was usually claimed (he found rape charged in less than one lynching in five*), but to shackle and harry a growing economic competitor. Rope & Faggot also maintained that lynch law dated back to Colonial days when a Quaker named Charles Lynch sat as magistrate in an extra-legal court at what is now Lynchburg, Va., to try horse thieves...
...with his year of freedom: Stephen Vincent Benet (John Brown's Body which won a Pulitzer Prize); Playwrights Lynn Riggs (Green Grow the Lilacs) and Paul Eliot Green (The House of Connelly); Walter Francis White, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch); Linus Carl Pauling, Langmuir Prize-winner (scientific research); Arthur Holly Compton. Nobel Prizewinner...