Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Negro is later arrested, identified by the girl, and cast into Columbia jail under the authority of a United States Sheriff. The little town begins to talk excitedly and then to whisper...
...night, an hour before the Sabbath. A gang of sturdy white men, geared out with ropes and revolvers surround the jail. They curse the sputtering Sheriff, and sledgehammer at the steel walls. Then, acetylene flames; and soon the leader has dragged out a Negro. The gang, now quiet, packs for the country. Fifty automobiles follow, respectfully curious...
...gruesome as any of the tortures employed during the Middle Ages. The press is unanimous in its agreement that it is one of the darkest blots on civilization in America. This system, whereby convicts are delivered under contract to turpentine camps at $20 a head profit to the sheriff sending them there, whereby flogging of prisoners to death is a common occurrence, has been speedily condemned by the Florida legislature, which voted 31 to 1 to abolish convict labor contracts with private concerns...
...What I am most interested in is prevailing upon the Sheriff not to get the troops there. . . . The Sheriff is our friend and he told me: ' Damn them, they (the non-union miners) ought to have known better than to come down here, but now that they are here, let them take what is coming to them...
...first thing they did was to hold an open meeting at Logan, in the heart of the non-union coal country, closed for years to free speech on coal questions, and discuss the subject: " What Shall the Federal Coal Com-mission Be Told About Logan?" Application was made to Sheriff Don Chafin for use of the court house as a meeting place, but it was refused (Chafin being in the pay of the operators) and the meeting had to be held on private property...