They're boilin' and festerin' with notions of equality till we're lucky if we don't have to lynch a dozen of 'em, like they did in Atlanta last summer, to get 'em back into their places again.

Do we save ourselves more trouble by stringing him up as a warning to the negroes?
Or do we invite trouble by turning him loose?
Which?
All it needs is a vote." And he set down agin.

You could see he had made a hit with the boys.
They was a kind of a growl rolled around the room.

The feelings in that place was getting stronger and stronger.

I was scared, but trying not to show it.