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...home, forced them to move to nearby Pomona. After they returned in May, they reported a series of thefts. Next, the Lewises insisted, they were plagued by a shotgun blast that tore into their house while they were eating; by carloads of white teen-agers who roared by, jeering "nigger lover"; by young white hoodlums accosting their six children, even to the point of shoving the youngest daughter, on her tricycle, down Castle Hill toward traffic...
...time identify exactly where he was. (The jail has a clump of trees around it.) Ware said that the Sheriff asked him for his knife and and placed it in Ware's handcuffed hands. Ware recalled the Sheriff contacting the state troopers on his radio saying "There's a nigger coming at me with a knife, I'll have to shoot him." According to Ware, the voice on the radio responded "Go ahead...
...them to district stations in waiting school buses. But some demonstrators sat down on the ground and refused to budge; they were hauled off bodily. The white crowd of some 1,000 inside the park turned mean, and there were shouts of "Dump 'em in the bay," "Black nigger, white nigger," "Castrate 'em" and "Send 'em to the zoo." But the police, in firm control, prevented actual violence...
...different. Scores of whites began gathering at Lexington's Red Pig, a rigidly segregated beer-and-barbecue spot in the center of town. The talk was of the Negroes' gains the night before. The crowd grew larger and suddenly someone yelled: "Let's hang the first nigger we find!" The mob began to move menacingly through town. It found no victims, and it surged on until 800 angry whites were standing in a roaring wall along the street that separates white and Negro homes in Lexington...
Douglass' Baltimore idyl came to an end. He was sent back to rural Maryland and farmed out to a cracker named Edward Covey, who enjoyed a reputation as a "nigger breaker." Covey very nearly broke Douglass. Called "the Snake" because he was always sneaking up on the slaves at work, Covey ruled by terror. "My natural elasticity was crushed," writes Douglass, "the disposition to read departed, the dark night of slavery closed in upon me." But Covey flogged Douglass once too often. In a fit of rage, Douglass grabbed Covey by the neck and beat him up. Covey never...