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Word: handprints (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down the concrete steps they dragged him, feet first, his head cracking again and again on the treads. Parker pleaded in vain: "I'll walk if you all don't drag me!" Blood trailed the figures as they stumbled onward, and a bloody handprint was slapped on the doorstep. The other prisoners ran to the window, saw the men fling their victim into a car, watched as the car and four or five other autos drove off. Parker's terror-choked voice was drowned by the chatter of youngsters leaving a dance down the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Lynch Law | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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