Word: newsphotographer
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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Sculptor Noguchi took his figure from a newsphotograph in The Labor Defender, official organ of the International Labor Defense, which showed the burning of the body of George Hughes, 41, at Sherman, Tex. in May 1930 (TIME, May 19, 1930). Negro Hughes had pleaded guilty to an attack upon a Mrs. Drew Farlow, a white farmer's wife. Infuriated Shermanites attacked and burned the courthouse with the result that Prisoner Hughes suffocated to death in a steel vault in the county clerk's office. From the vault his limp body was yanked out and paraded around town...
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