I am ashamed to say that I had never heard about this until now:

In what became known as the Brooks and Loundes Counties lynchings (in south-central Georgia near the Florida border), a mob killed Mary Turner for "loudly proclaiming her husband's innocence." The pregnant woman was hanged by her feet, gasoline was thrown on her clothing, and she was set on fire. "Her body was cut open and her infant fell to the ground, to be crushed to death by the heel of one of the white men present." The mother's body was then "riddled with bullets" according to NAACP reports. . . Although the NAACP publicized these events and provided Governor Hugh M. Dorsey with the names of two leaders and fifteen participants in the mob, state officials acted with indifference, and none of the killers was prosecuted.

Nothing to do with books, but so what? Makes me laugh every single time.

A July Holiday in Saxony, Bohemia, and S... "Ne wolde he call upon the Nine;'I wote,' he sayde, 'they be but jyltes:'Ne covet when he wander'd forthIcarus' wings—ne traytor stiltes." Old AuthorOpening: "How happens it," I said to a bookseller in the Zeil, "that a map of Bohemia is not to be had in all Frankfort?""How it happens?" he answered, with a knowing smile: "because no one ever goes to Bohemia."He searched and searched, as did a dozen of his fraternity whom I had previously visited, and found maps in number of Switzerland, Tyrol, Thuringia, Franconia, Turkey even, and Montenegro; but not the one I wanted."Such a thing is never asked for," he said, deprecatingly. "Suppose you go to Franconia instead."All at once he bethought himself of an inner closet, 2 and there he discovered a map of Bohemia; but not a travelling map: an overcrowded sheet that confused the eye, and promised but little assistance for the byeways. However, under the circumstances, I took it as better than none."You will not get the map you want till you arrive at Prague," was the sort of encouragement I got some twenty-four hours afterwards from a Bohemian Professor in the Medical School at Würzburg.http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42539Pawky writing but rather dated.