Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites - Cleveland
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Odds and Ends
... a lot of choices, in food and other areas of life as well. The Delta lacks that. The Delta is about 50% white and 50% black, but despite the racial divide those are mostly just two groups of people who have been in the Delta for a hundred years. This may also be one of the reasons why the Delta feels like a place that lacks energy and movement.
David Cohn, an author and historian of the Delta, wrote that ...
The Arrow on the Door Post
... for one of those spots is Carolyn Bryant herself, since she is one of the only people who could have been involved who is still alive (she actually moved away from the Delta to North Carolina recently). Emmett’s uncle Moses Wright always claimed he had heard a "light" voice in the truck that they used to abduct Emmett say “That’s him,” which would indicate a woman, specifically Bryant, was with the men at the time of the ...
South Country Blues
... across Mississippi, including Fanny Lou Hamer’s grave. To give some idea of just how much resistance there is, at least in the state house, a recent proposal for recognizing Medgar Evers’s house (where he lived and was assassinated) as a historic landmark did not get a second. Keep in mind--next year is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Medgar Evers.
Here’s the thing--this state ...
Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues
... It was a little less complex for the Chinese, because they had assimilated into southern society less than Delta Jews. In fact, Chinese isolation was effectively mandated by the Supreme Court in 1927 when a Chinese family sued to get their children admitted into the white schools. The Supreme Court determined that there were only two races in Mississippi, white and colored, and that the Chinese were definitely not white. The Delta Chinese ended ...
Down in the Flood
... to civil rights enforcement. It took over twenty years for the dust to settle, into an educational system that is as rigidly segregated as ever, with black students attending underfunded and understaffed public schools, and white kids who could afford it attending private schools.
We watched a documentary, and had a question and answer period with a local principal, about ...
Amenities
- Swimming pool
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Business Services
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Fitness/Health center
- Free parking