Word: lynched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subjective nor sentimental. A few readers will find misleading resemblances to John Steinbeck. But a closer comparison is with Stephen Crane. Like Crane, who wrote his Civil War masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, without ever having seen a battle, Richard Wright has written the most powerful stories of lynch violence in U. S. literature without ever having seen a lynching. (He did, however, spend most of his first 17 years in Mississippi, which in all the U.S. has the worst record for lynchings: 591 out of 5,112 recorded since...
YOUR CURRENT ISSUE (TIME, JAN. 24) WITH COVER MAN WALTER WHITE TOGETHER WITH ANTI-LYNCH BILL STORY DEFINITELY. STAMPS YOU AS JOURNALISTS OF THE AMERICAN SCENE WITHOUT PEERS. HOW MUCH IS A LIFETIME SUBSCRIPTION...
...Faggot, which he wrote in France on a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927-28, Author White maintained that the long tradition of U. S. vigilantism has finally narrowed down to the Southern Negro, not to protect Southern womanhood as was usually claimed (he found rape charged in less than one lynching in five*), but to shackle and harry a growing economic competitor. Rope & Faggot also maintained that lynch law dated back to Colonial days when a Quaker named Charles Lynch sat as magistrate in an extra-legal court at what is now Lynchburg, Va., to try horse thieves...
Throughout the rest of London only three incidents marred the solemnity of of the two-minute silence. At Ludgate Circus an iron-lipped whistler continued to shrill Night Must Fall until a crowd threatened to lynch hihim, and at Spitalfield Market Church the sentimental silence was shattered by a realist who suddenly shouted: "The dead are all right. What about me? I haven't had any breakfast!" Police had to rescue...
Almost certain to be contested, the final returns of the mayoralty election for Cambridge gave Mayor John D. Lynch the slight plurality of 171 votes over John W. Lyons. At request of both candidates four police officers were stationed, at the polls last night by Governor Hurley...