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...tums seem ter segashuate?" sez Brer Rabbit, sezee...
Roark Bradford has gone the late Joel Chandler Harris one better. Harris' classic Uncle Remus showed the Negro as storyteller, at one remove from his own concerns; in Bradford's tales Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit appear in their own black skins, without disguise. Negrophiles and educated Negroes may object that Author Bradford simplifies too much, sentimentalizes too often, but plain readers like his stories. Marc Connelley's The Green Pastures, founded on Bradford's first book, Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun, was the Broadway hit of 1930, won the Pulitzer Prize that...
...Uncle Remus" stories.* Throughout the State's public schools, where his birthday in December is annually celebrated, collection boxes were to be distributed so that moppets with dimes, nickels and pennies could share in honoring the man who gave them the tales of the foxiness of Brer Fox and the agility of Brer Rabbit. First substantial gift came from Col. Sam Tate, president of Georgia Marble Co., who lives in a huge pink marble mansion in Tate, 60 miles north of Atlanta, and from whose quarries was cut the stone that built the Federal Reserve Bank Building in Cleveland...
...service of Hardshell Baptists. He discovered why the roads in Winston County are worse than their neighbors': the mountaineers there were still being punished for their refusal to send men for the Confederate army. He listed many a fiddle-tune, quilt pattern,, mountain and Negro superstition, collected some Brer Rabbit tales not to be found in Joel Chandler Harris. He heard of a legendary Jim. "the stud nigger," whose boss hired out his services to a far-away plantation. When Jim learned that he would have to travel 500 miles each way, that there were 200 girls...
...only one fox stomach were found quail remains; small, nongame birds were in only six. The Bureau is now examining the stomachs of 50 foxes killed in the spring, paying $1 per stomach. Virginia Negroes, wise as Uncle Remus, have always known that of all foods Brer Fox prefers Brer Rabbit...