Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Faulkner, Morris, the 36-year-old former editor of Harper's magazine, is Mississippi grown. Unlike Faulkner, who kept close to the home that he turned into a national myth, Morris has spent most of his adult life outside the state. In Texas as an undergraduate and muckraker for the Texas Observer; in England as a Rhodes scholar; and in New York as a hard-drinking, uncompromising and sometimes brilliant editor. Yet, says Morris, "the longer I live in Manhattan, the more Southern I seem to become...
...American like Willie Morris is to engage in a perpetual war between states of mind, between the received past and the acquired present. That past requires continual reconnaissance. So in January 1970, Morris took the first of six trips back home to Yazoo City on the edge of the Mississippi Delta...
After the lecture, Ali recited one of his poems, "Better Far," which he introduced as a "black militant freedom poem." The verse was about a young black from Mississippi who at age ten had seen a black man lynched by the Klan, and had later had "bad experiences with the worst of the whites." He had gone north to Brooklyn where he joined the Panthers, and at the time of the poem was involved with 49 other Panthers in a rooftop shoot-out against the police. After all the other Panthers had been either shot or had surrendered, he remained...
...well as a few less radical losers-coming of age in the America of the early and middle sixties. His often disparate material coalesces into a whole because the events that keep reoccurring throughout this series of lives-the '54 Supreme Court Decision, the assassination of John Kennedy, Mississippi Freedom Summer, Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, San Francisco's Human Be-In, Vietnam Summer Project, the March on the Pentagon, Chicago-form the incantation that called forth the radicalism of the seventies...
TAKEN in broad outline, the ten lives are little more than the stuff of which youth exploitation films are made: Dave is the revolutionist who exceeds the activism of his father, an Old Left professor, by leading the seizure of University Hall: Roy is the black, native son of Mississippi who brings the reality of a militant Afro-American Organization home to Brandeis; Sue is a sensitive, Southern farm girl who joins the Civil Rights Movement in her growing knowledge that a good man is hard to find; and Don, whose prison notes record an adolescent stubbornness mellowing into militant...