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...Empress of China, the first U.S. ship to trade with China, arrives in Canton (now Guangzhou) after a six-month voyage, carrying 2,600 fur pelts and 30 tons of ginseng. It returns home with cotton, porcelain, silk and tea, earning the ship's owners about $30,000 in profits...
...wound up in some little diner someplace for lunch, and while we were sitting there, this hole in the wall half the size of this room,” says Cotton, indicating the size of the 20 by 30 foot bar he’s sitting in. “Who should walk in but Wallace and his bodyguard.” Wallace, of course, is then-Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, a segregationist with a flair for defiance...
Astonished, Cotton took a year off from Harvard to become a full-time reporter at the Courier as the paper’s Birmingham bureau...
...great strides made in Montgomery since the 1960s, locals and old staff members said they wondered just how far things have actually come since then. Carr, who still lives in Montgomery, explains that the city continues to be segregated between the black west side and the white east side. Cotton says that when he went to the Civil Rights Center in Birmingham, he was disheartened to see two separate school classes there for a field trip: one all white, the other all black...
...Both stadiums we have played at have also featured horse carousels along the outfield lines, fireworks after the games and music in between innings that is more suited for bat mitzvahs than baseball games (“Cotton Eye Joe,” the “Electric Slide,” and “Shout” are just a few examples...