Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor. Astonished, he reported that Hilda was five months pregnant. Tearfully, the mother cried: "Let God's will be done." Hilda's father, however, rushed to the police, and they arrested a 22-year-old orphaned cousin who lived with the Trujillos in their one-room shack, charged him with rape...
Last week Newsman Reddick, 43, almost covered his last story. Tipped off at 2 a.m. that an auto had exploded after plowing into a fish shack on the Coast Highway, Reddick was shooting flashbulb pictures of the wreckage when he heard a man's voice screaming: "Don't shoot!" A moment later a body hit the ground at his feet. As the newsman bent to examine it, a wild-eyed stranger jammed a .22 Colt automatic in Reddick's neck and pressed the trigger. The piece clicked harmlessly, and Reddick leaped behind a nearby fire truck. "Look...
...Should've wrecked that old shack years ago," observed one. "I sort of liked it," said another timidly. "Progress," announced a third, "progress respects no sentiment...
...before an all-white male jury in Circuit Judge Alta L. King's Birmingham courtroom last week: Bart A. Floyd, 31, second Ku Klux Klansman to stand trial for castrating a Negro in a deserted Alabama shack last September. The verdict: guilty of mayhem. The sentence, the same administered a fortnight earlier to one of Floyd's partners in crime: 20 years' imprisonment, the maximum sentence under Alabama law. "The sentence," said the Alabama-born Judge King, "is not nearly commensurate with the crime. You have disrupted the friendly relations between the races. You have drawn...
...start of the uproar over Little Rock one night last September, six hooded men grabbed a Negro named Judge Aaron on a lonely road in Alabama, took him to a deserted shack, castrated him with a razor blade, poured turpentine into the wound (TIME, Sept. 16). Six members of the Ku Klux Klan were arrested by Alabama police and charged with mayhem. One of the men explained: "We just wanted some nigger at random...