chain gang
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King was arrested in Atlanta and sentenced to four months on a chain gang.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
The league likes the drama of a chain gang stretching to measure for that first down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2023
Rustin helped organize the first freedom rides and once spent 22 days on a North Carolina chain gang after being arrested on one ride.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2023
The next year, he joined fellow organizers in protesting segregation in Rock Hill, S.C., where he was arrested and refused bail, serving 30 days of hard labor on a chain gang.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2022
I urged that our first offering should be a bill of three one-act plays, including Paul Green’s Hymn to the Rising Sun, a grim, poetical, powerful one-acter dealing with chain gang conditions in the South.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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