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...their worst, lynchings were episodes of sunlit municipal sadism. Newspapers announced the time and place in advance. Excursion trains were organized to move crowds to the scene. It was the Vicksburg Evening News that reported how Luther Holbert and his wife were burned to death by a crowd in Doddsville, Miss., in 1904. The couple were tortured with corkscrews that pulled out hunks of flesh. Their fingers were cut off, one by one, and distributed among the crowd as souvenirs. Mutilated flesh was racism's ultimate trophy...
...Carey, Bimkowski, Pisano. DP: Harvard1, Columbia 1. LOB: Harvard 7, Columbia 2. 2B: Keck, Wayne. 3B: None. HR: Portman. SB: Huling. CS: Holbert, Berti. HARVARD IP H R ER BB SO Crockett, W (1-1) 7.0 3 1 0 2 5 COLUMBIA...
Panelists Jeff Danziger of the Christian Science Moniter, Jerry Holbert of The Boston Herald, Etta Hulme of the Fort Worth Star Telegram, Doug Marlette of New York Newsday and the Globe's Szep addressed an audience of about...
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