Word: jims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jim Montgomery remembers Nov. 15, 1923 very clearly. He had just quit his steel-hustling job at a Waukegan machine plant and was having a game of 10? black ball at the Aggressor Pool Hall with his friend, Finis Moore. But Jim and Finis got to arguing and suddenly they were heaving pool balls at each other...
...Jim's wife, Sentoria, heard about it and came rushing down to take him home. But she couldn't keep him there-Jim strolled back to the poolroom for a while, then sauntered over to the Busy Bee for a cup of coffee. That was when the cops came. They hauled Jim to Waukegan jail and started talking. "All right, you black son-ofabitch, tell the truth," demanded one. "We know you done...
...Done what?" asked Jim. "Raped that white woman," the cop replied. That, swears Jim Montgomery, was the first he knew that he was in real trouble. Mamie Snow, a 62-year-old white woman who peddled doughnuts in Waukegan's squalid Negro district, had been found, beaten and moaning, near the Oakwood cemetery. Mamie vowed that she had been raped and the police told Jim that she had named him as her attacker...
...True. At first, Mamie was a little confused about identifying Jim. (It was "forgetfulness," explained relatives, a trait which made it necessary several years later to send Mamie to the Elgin State Hospital for the insane, where she died in 1947.) But later she got quite positive about it. At the police station, Montgomery recalls, he was beaten up by the cops and the prosecutor told him, "if you were down in Georgia or Mississippi ... we would turn you over to the K.K.K., and we are liable to do it up here." The Ku Klux Klan was strong...
...feud began when Carter, in Look magazine, tried to tell "What's Wrong with the North." In heavy-handed satire of "In the Land of Jim Crow" (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948), a series done by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Reporter Ray Sprigle after a tour of the South in the disguise of a Negro, Carter drawled that as a circulation-booster he had assigned one Sherlock ("Ol´ Fearless") Meriweather to do a series "In the Land of Grim Snow...