Word: minks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white jury filed into the trial room of the Lawrenceburg, Tenn. courthouse and faced pink, plump Circuit Judge Joe Ingram. For two tense weeks, 25 Tennessee Negroes had been on trial, 23 of them charged with the attempted murder of four white policemen in the ill-famed Mink Slide race riot at Columbia (TIME, March 11). Now, after one hour and 53 minutes of deliberation, the verdict was in: two guilty; 23 not guilty. Exclaimed white Defense Attorney Maurice Weaver jubilantly: "A victory for Americanism...
...incident had begun when a young Negro struck a white man. A white mob formed; the four policemen who were shot were mistaken by the Negroes for members of the mob, which surged into Mink Slide, Columbia's Negro district...
After the shooting, state troopers rounded up 104 Negroes, practically all of Mink Slide's male population, and grilled them mercilessly. Two were killed while "trying to escape." The troopers made a sizable shambles of Mink Slide before the list of suspects was arbitrarily narrowed from...
...astonishment of Lawyer Bumpus and almost everyone else, from Lawrenceburg to Mink Slide, the jurors took their oath seriously. Correspondent Vincent Sheean, who had covered the trial with mild hysteria, called the jury's action "the kind of thing that makes us realize the full splendor of our destiny as a nation...
...marrying her and "going to Paris, where we'd have lots of children" -that is, if he ever got a divorce from Wife No. 2. He had been just too extravagant, Virginia's mother told the newspapers. Mother had had to put her foot down: "Not mink, I told him. . . . He begged so hard, I finally allowed him to buy her a seven-skin beaver . . . $1,500. . . ." Suddenly the wind shifted. Said lovelorn Virginia to the newspapermen: "I've changed my mind...