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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reputed third oldest city in the U. S.** Negroes lolled in the park and pointed to a little hillock. "Are yoh a good niggah, Sam?" asked one. "I sure am. What make yoh ask silly questions, boy?" said Sam. "Den, yoh goin' to have a statue on dat spot over dere." And at the base of that statue will be the inscription: The Good Darky of Louisiana. Erected by the City of Natchitoches in Grateful Recognition of the Arduous and Faithful Service of the Good Darkies of Louisiana. Donated by J. L. Bryan, 1927. Mr. Bryan, cotton planter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Statue | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...Dat watermillion hangin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Cannonism | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...recall was part of the state reform movement which began during Roosevelt's regime. To dat, more than half of the states west of the Mississippi have adopted the recall. This piece of political machinery provides that when a certain percentage of the voters of a state sign a petition charging an official (governor, judge, etc.) with violation of his oath of office, there shall be an election held within from 20 to 90 days to oust or support the official in question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feud | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...Jefferson Davis, are likewise distressed by your "Colonel's" failure to perceive any analogy between violation of the 14th and the 18th Amendments. A Main Street inter-racial dialog illuminates the difference: White Man: "Can you vote down here?" Negro: "Oh, yes, sah, I kin vote all right-dat is I kin vote if I kin git registered, but I has been trying to git registered fo' de pas' ten years, and I is always jes' too late or jes' too early." (Other States give the sceptre to the Nordics by making constitutional knowledge prerequisite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Kent on the South | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...alife odder be he dat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION,FICTION: Melba | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

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