The very suspicion of seditious utterances against the government, suspected complicity in the Ku Klux Klan, or complaint by a negro that a white man had been uppity to him were enough to land a citizen in jail.

• 只要有煽动反对政府的一点点嫌疑，有三K党同谋的嫌疑，或者有黑人控告他态度傲慢，就足以让一个市民进监狱了。