11.   Minutes after the afternoon paper hit the streets, a white mob showed up at the courthouse, where Rowland was held.

12.   News of a possible lynching brought armed black residents face-to-face with a white mob at the local jail.

13.   Officers, however, took no action against the white mob, Wright said.

14.   She encouraged them to be courageous, while striving to guard them against howling white mobs.

15.   The bus pulled in front of the school, and the white mob waiting for the bus full of black children went berserk.

16.   The white mob, mostly composed of drunks, never did storm the jail.

17.   This time, no angry white mob hurled racial epithets and no bayonet-toting National Guardsmen blocked their path.

18.   Today the evidence points to trigger-happy white mobs, even the local power structure.

19.   White mobs formed.

20.   Yet when he returned home to Decatur, Miss., and registered to vote, he was greeted by an armed white mob at the polling booth.