Word: niggerness
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...first, after wrenching free, ran for her brother. When the brother came, said the women, the Negro shot at him. He fell down, feigned death. That frightened the Negro away. . . . Soon the men & boys of Union returned, bringing Dan Jenkins, road laborer. Yes, said the women, that was the nigger. Soon Dan Jenkins was full of bullet holes, eighth lynchee of 1930, South Carolina's second this year...
...POOR NIGGER-Orio Vergani-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). George Boykin, true to the best African tradition, was conceived, born and bred in total darkness. Bandied by harlots, sailors, soldiers, he saw much of life, understood little. While employed as a pimp in a Senegalese seaport, he first met Madame Germaine, relict of a French engineer; later went to her house after he had been shot in the shoulder in a cafe brawl. Madame Germaine, philanthropic, took him to France with her; lost him as soon as the boat landed. He worked as bootblack, ice-boy, thief, until he met Tommy Walsh...
...Mississippi. Dave Harris, black and 35, was suspected of stealing groceries from the Clayton Funderberg farm near Rosedale. Young Clayton Funderberg, 17, with two friends marched out with shotguns to the Harris cabin to "teach that damn nigger a lesson." Harris met them with a volley of buckshot, dropped Clayton dead in his tracks, fled for the Mississippi swamps. All night 200 men and boys searched for him, found him at dawn, cringing in an empty barn. They lugged him up to the levee, mocked his yammerings for mercy. "De Lord save me-" cried Harris as guns cracked about...
...Charlie Dalton, now Sir Charles Dalton, 80, onetime Cabinet Minister of Prince Edward Island Government. On Prince Edward Island, off the coast of New Brunswick, Charlie Dalton lived near Nail Pond, a wild region abounding in game. Like all oldtime fox trappers, Charlie Dalton was anxious to catch a "nigger"-not a black fox but a "red" fox preternaturally dark by some accident of heredity. Having caught several such, he bought three pairs from other trappers. Instead of selling their skins for a proportionately large profit, Charlie Dalton bred them, started the first known silver fox farm for breeding purposes...
...State's witnesses were evasive. Gamblers Alvin C. Thomas ("Titanic Thompson") and Nathan ("Nigger Nate") Raymond, describing a $300,000 stud poker game, said that McManus was a "cheerful loser." Bridget Farry, hotel chambermaid, who went to court in an emerald dress with a green ribbon in her hair, silver stockings and gilt shoes, refused to identify McManus. The prosecution could not connect McManus with the battered automatic, could not establish a motive why he should shoot Rothstein for owing him money...