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start saying”: Ibid.
    75  “Shoot him in the stomach”: Ibid.
    75  “in the privates”: Ibid.
    76  “heart yellow pine house”: McCall, Willis V. McCall, Sheriff of Lake County , p. 11.
    76  “scratch hard childhood”: Life , November 17, 1972.
    76  plowing, and chopping: McCall, Willis V. McCall, Sheriff of Lake County , p. 12.
    77  “This Is a Minute Maid Grove”: New York Daily Compass , March 1, 1952.
    77  “tough reputation in the groves”: Robinson, Law and Order, by Any Means Necessary , p. 16.
    77  “No white people”: Journal of Forest History , Vol. 25, 1981, p. 16. (Forest History Society.)
    78  “charm a snake”: Life , November 17, 1972.
    78  “the People’s Candidate”: Ibid.
    78  “People have confidence”: McCall, Willis V. McCall, Sheriff of Lake County , p. 14.
    78  “sell-out in politics”: Leesberg Commercial , July 2, 1945.
    78  “King of Slots”: Ibid.
    78  “It looks very much”: Ibid.
    78  “Just as long as you”: McCall, Willis V. McCall, Sheriff of Lake County , p. 14.
    78  “cracker mob of Central Florida”: Dickerson, Remembering Orlando , p. 38.
    79  “from the back door”: Robinson, Law and Order, by Any Means Necessary , p. 21.
    79  “use their good offices”: Kennedy, Southern Exposure , p. 58.
    79  “work or fight” laws: “Unfit Draftees May Be Uniformed Plant Workers,” Daytona Beach Morning Journal , February 17, 1945.
    79  “prevent loitering”: Gary M. Mormino, “Midas Returns: Miami Goes to War, 1941–1945,” Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida , Vol. 1, No. 57, 1997.
    79  “a ready pool of”: Nieman, “Black Southerners and the Law,” p. 53.
    79  “None of your damn jaw”: Jerrell H. Shofner, “The Legacy of Racial Slavery: Free Enterprise and Forced Laobr in Florida in the 1940s,” Journal of Southern History , Vol. 47, No. 3, August 1981.
    80  “Florida Bail Bond Racket”: Report on Groveland, WDL.
    80  “secured from the stockades”: Ibid.
    80  “without the formality”: Ibid.
    80  “appears to have been to dragoon”: New Leader , Augyst 13, 1949.
    80  “a pattern of beating”: FOHP, Williams.
    81  “the return to eight”: McCall, Willis V. McCall, Sheriff of Lake County , p. 63.
    81  “Look at his wrists!”: St. Petersburg Times , November 28, 1999.
    81  “communist infiltrated groups”: McCall, Willis V. McCall, Sheriff of Lake County , p. 15.
    81  “I’m Willis McCall”: Transcript of interview with Mabel Norris Chesley, Franklin Hall Williams Papers, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (hereafter cited as FHW Papers, Chesley).
    81  “this great big hulk”: Ibid.
    81  “political shenanigans”“: Ibid.
    82  “Hitler’s gestapo technique”: McCall, Willis V. McCall, Sheriff of Lake County , p. 63.
    82  “Now let that be a lesson”: Green, Before His Time , p. 80.
    82  “big ‘red scare’ trying”: McCall, Willis V. McCall, Sheriff of Lake County , p. 18.
    82  “a giant milestone”: “Landmark: Smith v. Allwright ,” NAACPLDF.org, http://naacpldf.org/case/smith-v-allwright.
    82  “the greatest one”: COHP, Marshall.
    82  “a guy had the right”: Williams, Thurgood Marshall , p. 112.
    83  “told the other states”: COHP, Marshall.
    83  “warning blacks not to vote”: Newton, The Ku Klux Klan , p. 384.
    83  “making no attempt”: Newton, The Invisible Empire , p. 117.
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    84  “Everything was silent”: FHW Papers, Chesley.
    85  “People would rush inside”: Ibid.
    85  “Knots of men”: “Mobile Violence: Motorized Mobs in a Florida County,” New South , Vol. 4, No. 6, August 1949.
    86  “leaps and bounds”: “The Carter-Klan Documentary Project: Thomas Hamilton,” 2006–2007, Center for the Study of the American South at UNC-CH, http://www.carter-klan.org/Hamilton.html.
    86  “a beachhead in Florida”: Newton, The Invisible Empire , p. 114.
    86  “see blood flow”: Time , March 15, 1948.
    86  “If you come in here”: Powell v. Alabama , 287 U.S. 45 (1932).
    87  With more than five hundred: South Lake Press , June 5, 2009, http://www.southlakepress.com/060509land.
    87  “colored people their homes”: MM 44-156, FBI.
    87  “protecting lives”: Ibid.
    87  “situation was getting out of hand”: Ibid.
    87  “psychological effect”: Ibid.
    88  “as if he was a