Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night John Gibson, Lillian's father, and a wrathful posse of 300 hillmen scoured the woods, caught a 22-year-old illiterate Negro named E. K. Harris. He was accused of Lillian's rape, taken to the Shelbyville jail. When a hillbilly mob went to Shelbyville, demanding that Harris be turned over to them, authorities spirited Harris away, first to Murfreesboro, then up to Nashville...
...telling them that Dr. E. E. Moody, a general practitioner of Shelbyville, had told him that Lillian was pregnant. The backcountry folk in turn rallied hundreds of Shelbyville's rabble, marched on the court house when the trial started. In the court room, Judge Coleman heard the mob shouting outside, tried to calm spectators with the assurance that it was just some sort of Christmas parade. No parade, the mobsters charged the court house twice. The no guardsmen returned tear gas for rocks, held firm. The third time the mob charged, militia officers, determined to hold the court house...
...Brooks was a 3-year-old moppet, romping on a Virginia plantation, when a tall, lean Presbyterian clergyman named John Miller Dickey founded the first institution for the higher education of Negroes in the U. S., called it Ashmun Institute. Soon after it opened in Oxford in 1854, a mob of townspeople appeared at Dr. Dickey's home, threatened to shoo his students across the Maryland border into slavery. Dr. Dickey's stern face and commanding figure cowed the mob, carried the college through its first crisis. At the close of the Civil War the name was changed to Lincoln...
...Henry Billings' Martha's Vineyard Sound, Reginald Marsh's Coney Island Beach and Grant Wood's Arbor Day, one canvas is notably eyeworthy: John Steuart Curry's The Fugitive, in which a terrified half-naked Negro hides against a tree trunk from a lynching mob while two red butterflies drift past his feet...
Even a king as young as Leopold III could not miss that cue. Next day the mob was saying that His Majesty had sent M. Jaspar packing and M. Jaspar was saying that he had voluntarily returned the royal mandate because he could not get M. Francqui into his Cabinet...