Word: yassuhing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yassuh, Yassuh." The first thing Underwood did, with the help of Deputy Sheriff Homer Sheffield, was to round up 30 Negroes. He finally narrowed his suspects down to four, then herded them into the sheriff's back room. As Sheriff Marshall explained: "I was not there, but about 9 or 10 o'clock, after some heat probably had been applied to try to get the truth, one of them said, 'Yassuh, yassuh, we hit him in the head.'" Underwood got "confessions" signed by three of the prisoners-Jesse James Jr., Amos Redmond and Jesse Davis-admitting...