Abstract
A 1931 report titled Lynchings and What They Mean concluded that “after a time, the ‘best citizens’ usually come to feel that ‘it is all over now, and the sooner it is forgotten, the better for the community.”‘1 Neither for Flossie Bailey nor for James Cameron was the Marion lynching over.
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Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching, Lynchings and What They Mean (Atlanta, 1931), 54.
Flossie Bailey to William Pickens, n.d., Group I, Series G, Container 65, NAACP Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Portions of this section appeared in earlier form in James H. Madison, “Flossie Bailey: What a Woman!” Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History 12 (winter 2000), 23–27.
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J. Clay Smith, Jr., Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844–1944 (Philadelphia, 1993), 386–91;
J. Clay Smith, Jr., “The Marion County Lawyers’ Club: 1932 and the Black Lawyer,” Black Law Journal 8 (fall 1983), 170–76;
Jerold S. Auerbach, Unequal Justice: Lawyers and Social Change in Modern America (New York, 1976), 210–16.
Stanley Warren, “Robert L. Bailey: Great Man with a Thirst for Justice,” Black History News and Notes, no. 55 (February 1994), 6–7.
Alan F. January and Justin E. Walsh, A Century of Achievement: Black Hoosiers in the Indiana General Assembly, 1881–1986 (Indianapolis, 1986), 28.
James Cameron, A Time of Terror (Baltimore, 1994), 129, 108–9.
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Madison, J.H. (2001). “All Over Now”. In: A Lynching in the Heartland. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-05393-0_8
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