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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...demonstrations for the poor." . . . Miss Blagden may or may not have been a paid social agitator, but that her sole purpose in coming to another State was to hold funeral over a mythical Negro's body is absurd. ... I doubt very much if she actually received from "the huskiest of the six" any blows from a mule's belly-strap. However, whether she did or not, I am only wondering why four strokes from a mule's belly-strap in Arkansas is so much more noticeable and so much more terrible than the dozens of blows from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

Taken across a field to a river bank, Preacher Williams was lashed 14 times with a mule's belly-strap. Miss Blagden's turn came next. The huskiest of the six swung the belly strap, laid four solid clouts on her back & thighs. Miss Blagden and Preacher Williams were then told never to come back to Crittenden County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: True Arkansas Hospitality | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

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