Word: ferriday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indirect Object. In Ferriday, La., John Kirtis ran amuck, beat a woman over the head with a loaded revolver until it went off, shot him dead...
...propertied man, also something of a philanthropist, was vice president of the Moneywasters. He was also operator of the Rhythm Night Club, a big (200 by 40 ft.) shack of wood and corrugated iron on St. Catherine Street in Natchez' darktown. He leased the building from Mrs. C. Ferriday Byrnes, who rates even higher among Natchez whites than her tenant did among Natchez Negroes. The Negroes who went to Moneywaster dances at the Rhythm were mostly laborers, carpenters, waiters, servants in the best homes of Natchez...