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...Allman Brothers Band-Jimmy Carter for President concert to leave me wondering what is going on in the New South--specifically, whether the kinds of minor generation-gap-bridging miracles taking place in the plush northwest suburbs of Atlanta are also taking place in Knoxville, Greenville, Pahokee, Biloxi, Bogalusa, Tuscaloosa, Arkadelphia, and Nacogdoches...
...story is set in the bayous near Biloxi, not too far from Still's birthplace in Woodville, Miss. The young Cajun Bazile falls in love with the spectral Aurore, defying the Cajun stricture against consorting with spirits as evil and punishable by death. The amorous Clothilde, jealous of a love she cannot understand, betrays her beloved to the village priest. Bazile is hanged. At the moment of his death, Bazile's spirit is joined with that of Aurore...
...front-page picture showed a terrified black man clinging to a railing as whites clawed at his shirt. Headlines summarized the sorry situation: SCHOOL SITUATION WORSENS, VIOLENCE SPREADS, BLACKS URGE FEDERAL ACTION. It might have been Birmingham or Biloxi in the 1960s-but it was Boston, last week...
...Biloxi, Miss...
There seemed to be nothing very unusual stirring in Biloxi, Miss. The trial down at the courthouse did prompt one high school civics class to look in, but that was routine. What they saw, though, had never been seen before in Biloxi. Filling up the left side of the visitors' gallery were 43 scrubbed and cropped white patrolmen-all defendants in a civil suit. And they were being sued by blacks, specifically by three young students who had been wounded and by the survivors of two other blacks who had been killed in the 1970 shootings at Jackson State...