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...Start Shooting." A warning cry sounded through the Negro district. Some 400 people charged out of their homes to face the whites, and a deafening roar of insults, obscenities, threats rose from the white men's mob. The Negroes answered in kind...
...began gathering at Lexington's Red Pig, a rigidly segregated beer-and-barbecue spot in the center of town. The talk was of the Negroes' gains the night before. The crowd grew larger and suddenly someone yelled: "Let's hang the first nigger we find!" The mob began to move menacingly through town. It found no victims, and it surged on until 800 angry whites were standing in a roaring wall along the street that separates white and Negro homes in Lexington...
After the mob had crippled three trolley cars by disconnecting the power lines, the police moved in. They used tear gas--a tactic unprecedented and not to be repeated for over twenty years. But the patrolmen's efforts failed. About 1500 students fought their way up to Radcliffe, where they milled around yelling and hooting for most of the night...
...understand why my father had me piling rocks up in the hall by the front door. The curtain was down, and he stood behind the door with a rifle. If memory serves correctly, next to him, also with a rifle, stood his white neighbor and friend. The mob came-perhaps 50 or more. A woman neighbor from a block and a half down the street stopped them and, wagging her finger under the leader's nose, said, "Don't you dare bother that colored family down the street, or you are going to have trouble with...
...week's end the New Lavender Hill Mob, as Fleet Street inevitably christened it, was still at large-probably, guessed Scotland Yard, holed up within metropolitan London. Unlike Alec Guinness' mob, which melted down its loot into solid-gold Eiffel Tower souvenirs and shipped them to Paris, the real-life quartet probably aimed to export its bullion to India, where gold fetches twice the world market price. "I see no reason why they should be caught," said one expert. "They have a market for it all ready. It's that kind...