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...Negroes alone, a minority have made their lives a daily agony. Egged on by their parents and members of the White Citizens' Council, they have jostled the Negroes in hallways, jarred books out of their arms, taken every opportunity to trample on their toes. Then last fortnight John Kasper, 27, the rabble-rousing Washington, D.C. bookseller who was arrested for sedition and inciting riots in Clinton, won an acquittal from a state court...
...night a howling mob of 1,000 whites, inflamed by a self-appointed foe of integration from Washington, D.C. named John Kasper, banged and battered the cars of Negroes passing through, blocked traffic, swamped and demoralized the local police. Next night the showdown came. Forty citizens of Clinton were sworn in to help the eight Clinton cops in a vigilante "peace guard." They armed themselves with "everything we can get our hooks on," and formed a skirmish line before the mob in the courthouse square. "Lock them up if they give you any lip," ordered the submachine gun-toting commander...
Bloody Pathway. Kasper Jansen, a kindlier, more contemplative man than his fiery younger brother Koos, laughed a "bitterly defiant laugh" as he left the valley farm he loved. His pregnant wife Anna was more apprehensive. Anna detested violence. Like some of the other Boers with whom the Jansens joined forces in the drive into the north country, she wanted her children to grow up in a peaceful world stripped of racial hatred. But when the Boers reached the Matabele kingdom the natives resisted, and the Boers carved a bloody pathway with their rifles. Anna, giving birth just before the battle...
...make certain that every American moppet will become properly bear-conscious, Kasper-Gordon, the transcription agency, has promised to set off an overpowering display of promotional fireworks to coincide with the June 9 national premiere of the show...
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