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...News: "Negroes . . . are almost always identified by race; whites . . . are not . . . Hardly ever does 'Mr.,' 'Miss,' or 'Mrs.' precede the name of a Negro in the regular news columns . . . To refer to the widow of a lynched Negro as 'the Mallard woman' . . . is to deny her even the elemental dignity of grief . . . The Negro [in stories and pictures] is either presented as a menace, or he is ridiculed, patronized or applauded backhandedly...
...last week, Amy Mallard was probably as unpopular in Toombs County, Ga. as her husband Robert ("Big Duck") Mallard had been before he was lynched. The lynching had caused a lot of trouble and almost everyone thought that was Amy's fault. Big Duck had been a "real uppity nigger"-some said he even wanted to be called mister-and most of Toombs County thought he'd gotten just what he deserved...
...Mallard had put up an awful fuss. Even after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation had charged her with the murder herself she wouldn't shut up. They let her out of jail after a few hours, and what did Amy do? She ran off and hid in Savannah and said she was scared and got her name in the papers...
...stand. She told how she and Big Duck and their baby and two cousins were on their way home in their car at night and how a gang of men "with white stuff on them" and "pistol guns" had stopped their car, and shot Robert Mallard dead...
Hummon Steps In. Thus harassed, Georgia's newly inaugurated Governor Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge acted fast. On his orders, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation moved in with dispatch. Four days later it had its own answer to who killed Robert Mallard. As she left her husband's funeral services, Mrs. Mallard was arrested by the G.B.I. on a charge of murder. Blandly, the arresting officer, Lieut. William E. McDuffie, announced: "It is our belief that they [the Klan] are not guilty of shooting Mallard." But he gave no basis to reporters for charging Mrs. Mallard. Dumfounded and hysterical...