Petersburg, Florida, celebrated Labor Day in 1925: Petersburg Times gives a particularly disturbing sense of the popularity of the game, describing how some residents of St.

In November 1935, the Iowa newspaper Lake Park News recounted a recent successful high school carnival which featured a musical show and a 'thrilling athletic event,' touting that 'After this show, the crowd enjoyed themselves in visiting the various booths or trying to ring a duck's neck in a tank of water or hit the nigger baby.' In July 1948, a 'soldiers reunion and homecoming' held in the public square in Brownstown, Indiana, was advertised in the Jackson County Banner with the exhortation 'Make this big week your vacation time - Bring the family - meet old friends - Hit the 'Nigger Babies' - Eat Hot Dogs - Join the Fun.' In several instances, the stand received top billing in newspaper bulletins promoting upcoming carnivals and fairs, along with the shooting gallery and fish pond. In our research of newspaper archives, we found evidence of the game's being staged as early as the 1880s, and as recently as the 1950s. According to the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University, 'It sounds like a common carnival target game, but there was one unsettling part of the game, namely, the game's target was a real live human being, a 'negro' human being.' 'Hit the Nigger Baby' (also known as 'The Black Dodger' or 'Hit the Coon') was a common fairground game in which players hurled objects (usually eggs or baseballs) at African-American people serving as human targets. This image is authentic and shows a 1942 YMCA brochure for Camp Minikani, a children's summer camp in Wisconsin.

Duck game raise a little man