Word: mobbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Federal grand juries seldom indict for lynching anywhere, but a jury made legal race history last week in Jackson, Miss. by doing just that: indicting Deputy Sheriff Luther Holder of Jones County-as well as four leaders of a lynch mob-because he did not protest or protect the jail or cell of one Howard Wash and so failed to keep alive his prisoner...
...last October that a mob of men broke with suspicious ease into the strong Laurel, Miss. jail and snatched up Howard Wash, dark and worried because he had killed his white employer in alleged self-defense. The mob brushed politely past Deputy Sheriff Holder, past the open steel doors and heavy bars. They took Howard Wash away with them to Welborn's Bridge and left him there-hanging limp like a broken crow, his slack toes pointed down at the drying creek...
Finally troops in armored cars from military camps close by rolled into the riot, opened fire on the mob after a white soldier had been stabbed to death. Before the bloody night was over, 15 natives lay dead beneath the jacaranda trees and 66 were in the hospital...
...every part of Teheran Axis agents egged on the people, sending them down to Parliament to agitate for bread. Orators harangued the crowd, worked it up with cries to oust the government. By evening the mob was marching down the main thoroughfare, Stamboul Street, ready for physical violence...
From a loudspeaker in Pahlavi Square came the strains of a conga. Then the mob heard grimmer music as the firing started. Soldiers opened up with rifles and pistols; tanks lumbered into position and began firing. The Army was called out, stood by with loaded guns...