Word: groveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grumbling, the mob rode off, and almost broke up. Just for the hell of it, though, in the little fanning town of Groveland, 65 miles from Tampa and not far from Willie and Norma Padgett's house, the men with shotguns pumped 15 loads of buckshot into a Negro-owned juke joint. Then they looked around for more Negroes-but the 400 residents of Groveland's Negro district had been carted to safety by white citizens who feared what was coming...
...Stuckey's Still, a bedraggled Negro home site three miles from Groveland, the band poured shots into one house (someone thought it belonged to the father of one of the rape suspects) and started after more. Sheriff's men and highway police stopped them with tear-gas grenades. A few miles away, whites tossing kerosene-filled bottles burned three Negro homes to the ground...
...Haines, West Medway; Wesley N. Haines, Boston; Glenn P. Holman, Neponset; Leonard W. Holmberg, Woonscocket, R. I.; Robert LaV. Jacobs, Belmont; Paul G. Kuntz, Philadelphia, Pa.; Albert A. Martin, Middleton; John A. Martin, Rochester; Kermit Schoonover, Clintondale, N. Y.; Oscar J. F. Seitz, Medfield; Clement W. Welsh, South Groveland; and Robert T. Weston, Lexington...