Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sullen, glint-eyed men collected in murmuring knots in the dusty, farm-town streets. Soon, the small angry knots had. become one 125-man mob pulling up at the Tavares courthouse in a 20-car caravan. Most of the mob stayed behind while its leaders walked up the steps to talk with big, easygoing Sheriff Willis McCall. "Willis," said one,"we want them niggers...
...American civilization, the American home, the American church, and our educational system, that it produces or tolerates this sort of conduct? And why should the St. Louis law enforcement agencies be so lenient with such rioters? Is closing the pools to Negroes the answer? Is the assault of a mob on a few helpless individuals a less serious offense than an assault of a single individual upon another...
Before the workers finally withdrew, pending negotiations, a graver incident occurred. Mild, retiring U.S. Vice Consul William M. Olive, who had left the consulate before the siege began, got stuck in his car amid the parading mob; he waited for two hours, then was arrested for traffic violations and obstructing the parade. The Communist cops did not allow U.S. officials to see him in jail. Sixty-six hours later he was released-after, as the Reds put it, "being given sincere and serious education by the police...
Judge Reeves coolly shut him off. As Judy and Archie left the courtroom they were surrounded by a mob of 500 people, pushing, shoving, yelling. "Let me get a look at the hussy," demanded an old woman. "She ought to get a rope around her neck, that's what! I was a yeomanette in the first World War," said another...
...opening day at Fairgrounds Park, white swimmers drifted back to the locker room in sullen anger when the first Negroes splashed into the outdoor pool. Outside the pool fence, a mob of some 200 teen-agers collected. Police arrived in time to escort the Negroes safely from the park. But all that afternoon fist fights blazed up; Negro boys were chased and beaten by white gangs. In the gathering dusk, one grown-up rabble-rouser spoke out. "Want to know how to take care of those niggers?" he shouted. "Get bricks. Smash their heads, the dirty, filthy...