Arkansas State Press

Hodding Carter's Courier Hints At More Paul Robesons
By SAMUEL S. TAYLOR, Associate Editor.
"Whip-scarred stomachs and backs," "mauled eyes," "broken teeth," "wounds inflicted... with a piece of glass," "private parts......swollen" from beating, back of pants "filled with dried blood," this is the picture given of three rape suspects after they had hung from pipes in a cell of the jail at Tavares while being "questioned" by the officers who arrested them, according to an account on the first page of Hodding Carter's—
South Commending Pittsburgh Courier.
"Sordid tale of inhuman bestiality and brutality," "tale of horror," says the Courier, and it also quotes Thurgood Marshall, outstanding attorney, well-known in Little Rock in connection with the teachers' salary case, as saying of the slaying of the fourth suspect, "This wanton killing by a deputized mob is worse than a lynching."
Hodding Carter's paper failed him again with the headline "Fear More Mob Visits In Dixie", and another headline, "New Wave of Terror Sweeping Southland", both on the front page.
On an inner page, Hodding Carter's paper reports under the title "I Love America" that
Although 400 Negroes are reported to have fled from their homes, there has been no word of a single arrest to date;
A "demented Negro was murdered in jail" in Orleans parish;
Night riders in South Carolina beat and shot a householder and his brother.
"So far," concludes Hodding Carter's paper, "there has been only one Paul Robeson to assert himself among Negroes. But if conditions were reversed and whites had to suffer at the hands of Negroes what Negroes now suffer from their fellow-countrymen, how many Paul Robesons would arise among them?"