Word: mississippis
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Last month Charles Evers lost his bid to become to first black governor of Mississippi. Evers had said that he expected to get between 30 and 35 per cent of the vote but the fact that he only got 21 per cent is not surprising. Observers like R.W. Apple and Thomas Johnson of the New York Times said that the election was a major disappointment to blacks in Mississippi. They failed to consider the election in perspective and thus did not realize what Evers was trying...
Last April after Evers announced his candidacy, I made plans to go to Mississippi in June and do voter registration. The last day to register to vote in the 1971 elections was July 2, so I figured my involvement in the campaign would end then. Anticipating this, I took a job in New York City which was to begin after the 4th of July weekend...
However, the weekend before I left to go to Mississippi, I had a phone conversation with Evers' campaign manager, Edward Cole. I told Cole that I had had a certain amount of experience in New York State politics and proceeded to list all my skills. I mentioned that I had done research on occasion. Cole interrupted me and told me that he wanted me to come to Jackson and be the research director for as long as I could stay. I told him that could only be until July 1. I at first felt it was strange that I would...
...Ginsberg to the Club 47 folk revival to Leadbelly to the blues. Guralnick then spends exactly one chapter on the history of the blues, intended primarily for the benefit of the beginner. ("For our purposes I think it is enough to say that the blues came out of Mississippi, sniffed around in Memphis and then settled in Chicago where it is most likely it will peacefully live out the rest of its days.") The bulk of the book consists of fascinating personal glimpses of Muddy Waters, Johnny Shines, Skip James, Robert Pete Williams, Howling Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis and Charlie...
Both Losing Battles and One Time. One Place portray the Depression from within, rather than from outside. "The Depression," she says in her introduction, "was not a noticeable phenomenon in the poorest state in the union." Whatever this may say about the perpetuity of depression conditions in rural Mississippi, it is more telling about how people under thirty-five felt about the thirties. There is in the eye of the photographer and in the faces and scenes she captures a desperate optimism and an unforgivable innocence. It seems that reality breaks Eudora Welty's heart, and that most...