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Word: posseman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...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 »

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