Says a 1942 Milwaukee YMCA brochure shows children playing a violent, racist carnival game
The game, with a banner including the n-word, was advertised in a 1942 brochure for Camp Minikani, in Washington County. This barbaric game was played widely at local fairs and carnivals from the 1800s into the mid-1900s, often using humans as targets. Newspaper accounts from the era casually reference the "dodgers" being badly injured and even killed.