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...swirling with white and yellow clouds of smoke, raging with the cries of men. Choking, bleeding, the Negroes fled in all directions while the whites pursued them. The mounted men uncoiled bull whips and lashed out viciously as the horses' hoofs trampled the fallen. "O.K., nigger!" snarled a posseman, flailing away at a running Negro woman. "You wanted to march-now march...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION 1965: CIVIL RIGHTS The Central Point | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...Kill the bastards!" screamed posseman. "Go get that one!" another cried. A posseman in a blue denim jacket and cowboy hat yelled "Whooopee!" and lashed his horse to a gallop to catch and whip a fleeing Negro...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: Montgomery Police Halt Tuesday March; Beatings Nearly Provoke Riot by Negroes | 3/24/1965 | See Source »

...swirling with white and yellow clouds of smoke, raging with the cries of men. Choking, bleeding, the Negroes fled in all directions while the whites pursued them. The mounted men uncoiled bull whips and lashed out viciously as the horses' hoofs trampled the fallen. "O.K., nigger!" snarled a posseman, flailing away at a running Negro woman. "You wanted to march -now march...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Central Points | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...western shore. It was still only 9 a.m. when William Mullen, veteran woodsman and member of the Palisades Interstate Park Police, leading a posse along the side of Hook Mountain, heard a noise in the brush and saw a flash of white shirt. "You're surrounded," a posseman hollered. "Put up your hands." All fight gone out of them, Riordan and McGale stumbled out, gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Sing Sing Break | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Frank Conley did not surrender. Twenty-four hours after his leap on Troy Wade he was found in a pit on the Ouachita River levee, still holding his shotgun, 50 yards from the spot where the posseman had been killed. A bullet through the throat had ended his flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: 36 Men in Flight | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

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