title: Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color--A Journey From Prison to Power
author:  Patrice Gaines 
description: Gaines's memoir of empowerment, telling the story of how she went from a young mother jailed on drug charges to a successful reporter for the Washington Post. <br />Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # TATTOOED BLONDE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### By ELLERY WATSON CALDER
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
      
  
  Etext from pulpgen.com
  
  
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  Branded! The word on her breast was dynamite to the angry mob. But
  
  
  Terry Dixon had a hunch that bared a startling plot and saved a
  
  
  beautiful girl
  
  
    
  Spicy Adventure
  
  
  _, April, 1935
  
  
  
  
  
  HIS face unshaven, his husky form clad in tattered overalls, Terry
  
  
  Dixon stood at the edge of the milling, sullen mob. A cold fury leaped
  
  
  within him as he stared toward the blonde girl who stood on an
  
  
  improvised rostrum in the center of the throng.
  
  
  She was young and lithe and beautiful; but her face was contorted
  
  
  with anger as she harangued her listeners. “You spineless cowards!” she
  
  
  screamed venomously.
  
  
  “Are you going to let the Dixon interests get away with their
  
  
  high-handed methods? Are you going to let them pay you slave's wages
  
  
  forever? Are you going to let them trea