Wicked Winston-Salem

In: Wicked

Abstract

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements and Contributors -- Part I. Public Concerns and Policies -- Tobacco Warehouse Thieves -- Slot Machine and Punch Boards -- Whiskey Raids -- A Major Nuisance Stuck in "Committee" -- Wicked Smallpox and the Pesthouse -- A Bad Impression -- No, No and More No's -- Epidemic of Spanish Flu -- No Black Police Officers -- Difficulties and Dangers for Salem -- The "Lot" Determined Who Should Marry Whom -- Part II. Crimes and Punishments -- Guilty of First-Degree "Muddy Creek" Murder -- The Ball Went Through His Heart -- They Poisoned Their Daughters -- Beaten into Unconsciousness and Critically Injured -- The Frank Snipes Gang Successors -- Libby Holman, Torch Singer, Accused of Murdering Millionaire Husband -- Rape, Posse, Gunfire -- The Drop Fell at 12:55-Broke His Neck -- State Prison Escapee Recaptured after Twenty Years -- Mob Storms Jail -- Part III. Now You Know -- He Claimed He Could Heal Anything-For a Price -- Not in My Neighborhood -- Lust for Fashionable Apparel -- The Dreaded Invaders Arrived -- Alderman "Blasted" Mayor -- "Other Such Business" -- Racially Tense Winston-Salem -- At the Zinzendorf Hotel -- Moravians in Salem "Going against Tradition" -- Anything Wicked "Goes" for a News Snippet -- He Said, She Said -- "I Don't Want a Sterilize Operation" -- Part IV. Believe It or Not -- Board of Censors of Public Amusements -- Salem Tavern-The Place to Drink, Argue, Duel -- Obey Our Rules…Or Else -- 10,000 in Currency Burned -- Wickedly Heavy and Dirty Mill Work -- Repeated Protests -- No Unions! -- Winston Officers Raid Distilleries -- "They Take All the Pie" -- Big Hudson Six Turns Over Three Times -- Somebody Could Get Killed! -- Part V. Straight from the Horse's Mouth -- A Deplorable State of Affairs -- Hand Over Your Money, or Else! -- Sex in the Twin City.