Word: womening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lynchings have increased in savagery since 1773 when Negroes were "genteely Tarr'd and Feather'd." Now lately, eyes have been knocked out with sticks, fingers saved as souvenirs, pieces of flesh removed with corkscrews, men tied to automobiles and dragged through the streets until dead, men and women mutilated unprintably...
...Less than one out of three Negroes lynched is even charged with rape of, or advances to, white women. White women have not half the attraction for Negro men that Negro women have for white men?say Negro men. Many a Southern gentleman had, and has, children by his cook. Author White points out that Southern white women themselves frown on lynching as a means of protecting their virtue, which Negroes protected during the Civil War, when white husbands were away. Lynchers, usually sexual perverts, seldom wait for confirmation of alleged attacks. A rumor, a whisper, a bloodthirsty suggestion...
...Women Flyers...
...Kansas and Detroit also have women's aeronautical associations...
...more than 6,000 licensed U. S. pilots, about 50 are women, a half dozen of whom are commercial pilots...