Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...C.M.E. bad all right, but it ain't nothin' like it was two years ago." Knight Collins emphasized his judgment with the tap of fist against cupped hands, and we walked...
...know what the letters stand for, C.M.E.?" Knight did not wait for me to answer. "Used to be that C.M.E. Church over yonder, back when that church was a big thing. But it dosen't have anything to do with it any more. C.M.E., it stands for crime, murder, and the electric chair.--Shoot, I seen white folks run here just from fear of slowin' down. Seen it two years ago, anyhow...
...Knight and I walked by a liquor store. The manager was replacing a cracked window pane with plywood, shaking his head, apparently done at last and forever with glass...
...Knight lowered his voice: "Had a little trouble here last night--cop got shot." He grinned. "Same little raggedy-ass cop we kidnapped back in '61.--Hell, it ain't nothin' like it was back then. Them cops came right in here last night. We didn' use' to 'low no cops in C.M.E." Knight rubbed his chin. "I don't know what it is. Looks like the Movement got people kind of non-violent. Two years ago, they wouldn'a showed up for a Brinks robbery...
...Knight was known around Albany as a "gang leader." In the South, this implied nothing about jackets, a "turf," organized warfare or a hierarchical command, but meant simply that he fought hard, drank a lot, carried influence among his male peers in C.M.E. as the best among equals, and weilded genuine authority only over the age-group that rides souped-up bicycles and smokes cigarettes with great flourish. Quick, wild-grinning, tall and made taller by the brush of his untended process, he was working when he could, hustling what he could, living round the circle of his relatives...