Word: nigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While you (very properly) castigate and laugh at our rabble-rousing, gallus-snappin', education-proof, nigger-baitin' . . . Gene Talmadge, thank you for not letting the nation forget that Georgia has given to the Senate one of its most distinguished statesmen, Walter George. Don't let them forget, please, that the President tried to "purge" Walter George. And failed...
Trouble also came from white planters of the region, who watched their cheap help skitter off the fields to get better jobs at the Army post. The planters referred contemptuously to "that nigger airport." A white planter telephoned that he would kill the first Negro soldier who ever again waved greetings to his womenfolk...
Twice in recent weeks ugly gossip ran up & down the wide and sunburned streets of Rome, Ga. (pop. 26,282): there had been what the white residents called "nigger trouble." A young Negro had sat in the white section on a bus, starting a row. Then word spread that a Negro preacher was saying that now, while white men and boys were away in the Army, was the time for Negroes to assert their rights...
Someone called police and told them there was more "nigger trouble...
...Geechee said: "I got a thing to tell you. I got to have help." 'Geechee's man, Leroy, was serving a 20-year term for manslaughter. "You know people," said 'Geechee, "you can git him out. . . . He didn't do a thing. This other nigger was layin' for him. He went at Leroy and he bopped him one and Leroy be's strong and he made a pass at him and it done killed this nigger." Author Rawlings got Leroy out, gave him a job at the grove. Soon his manner was so threatening...