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Odds and Ends
... chicken at a restaurant called The Senator’s Place comes to mind--but choices are limited. Buffets and steam-table counters dominate, and most of these places are only open for lunch. One night, we ended up going to a pizza and beer place because it was about all that we could find that was open. The internet claimed it was the best pizza in Cleveland, but the frozen cracker crust did not do it for me.
It’s also ...
The Arrow on the Door Post
... his neck. Bryant and Milam were arrested, but acquitted, and then admitted their guilt and sold their story to Look Magazine a few months after they were found innocent--not coincidentally around the same time that the Montgomery Bus Boycott began. And, in general, that is the crux of the story and the importance of the Till case is that it was perhaps the most important catalyst of the civil rights movement.
What I didn’t know is that the ...
South Country Blues
... thorn in the side of Mississippi's incredibly racist governor James O Eastland (who was so racist that after the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts were passed, he became a strong advocate of the white supremacist government in Rhodesia). She led the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party’s attempt to be seated at the Democratic Convention in place of the segregated delegation of the "regular" Democrats. She opened her statement ...
Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues
... the Delta was during Chinese Exclusion. As a result, her grandfather went home every ten years and had another kid, so there were 4 kids spaced over forty years in the family.
Both of these groups were caught in the middle of things when the civil rights movement heated up Since many of the SNCC students and civil rights workers who were coming to the Delta in the 1960s were northern Jews. This threatened to rip away the southern ...
Down in the Flood
... When the levee broke during that high water, the water poured into the Delta at twice the rate of Niagara Falls.
The turning point in the history of the Mississippi Delta was the Great Flood of 1927, when the Delta was under water for nearly four months. It was during this flood that the relationship between blacks and whites hardened. Following the flood, blacks were pressed ...
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