Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pesticides to blame? The Public Health Service said they were when 5,000,000 fish died last fall in the Mississippi Delta. After a hurried investigation and an analysis of the remains of ten dead catfish, PHS blamed the entire slaughter on endrin, an insecticide used on cotton and sugar cane in the farms around the lower reaches of the river. No significant amount of endrin was found in the water where the fish died, reported Cincinnati's Dr. Donald Mount. But in the blood of the dead catfish, he said, enough endrin was found to be fatal...
...Anababtists selected the town of Muenster in West Phalla as the New Jerusalem. They marched into the market place prepared to be as sheep for the slaughter, but armed with swords just as a reminder of what they might do if they chose. Whereupon a revelation from the Holy Ghost instructed them to choose that which they might. Catholics and Lutherane were expelled... Roland Bainton, 16th Century Reformation...
Both white and Negro reactions are similar; whether, like both types of Anabaptists, they believe they are "civilized Christians" or "sheep for the slaughter." Both hear their Holy Ghost and are prone to irrationality and hysteria. Law and order have succumbed in the face of Negro protest; white Americans have beaten and killed, if they have not expelled Negroes. At one time, Negro protest was characterized by prayers and spirituals. Today, one is apt to see Negro demonstrators with clenched fists and to hear curse words. Thus, Negroes conceive and selfishly use "forms of power," such as the stall...
...course there is yet one other way of avoiding all conflict in Mississippi this summer, and that is simply not to go. Strangely enough, the proponents of the status quo in Mississippi also use reason of "slaughter" and "racial clash" to justify leaving the state in the hands of the White Citizens Council and the Negro population to its usual state of maleducation, harassment, and deprivation. But we do not intend to take what undoubtedly would be this "safer" course, and leave matters as they are; despite these real risks, we are going ahead with the project in the hopes...
Naturally we are aware of the potential for "slaughter" and "racial clash," as Mr. Lerner puts it, but if he had asked us, we would have told him what we are doing to avoid these possibilities...