Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marry a white or even whistle at one. (Emmett Till, 14, from Chicago, was beaten and shot to death in Mississippi in 1955 for such a "crime," and other blacks were routinely beaten for "reckless eyeballing," i.e., looking at a white female...
...already flowing when the movement of the continental plates thrust up the Appalachian Mountains, which are no youngsters as mountains go. While most Eastern rivers flow south and east and empty into the Atlantic, the New meanders north, cuts through the mountains and empties into the Ohio and Mississippi drainages. For centuries, in fact, it served as a highway for early Americans seeking to travel from East to West. Stone axes, arrowheads and other artifacts found along its banks have been dated back at least 8,000 years before the birth of Christ...
TOWBOAT JESSE. When Jesse Brent launched his career on the Mississippi in the late 1930s, riverboats accounted for just 2.5% of America's interstate freight. Now they carry 16%. Brent, a short, wiry man of 64, foresaw the boom and cashed in on it. His net worth stands at some $10 million -enough, he says, to buy "all the whisky and steaks I want," with plenty left over for philanthropy in his home town of Greenville, Miss. The wealth comes mainly from Brent Towing Co., whose 48 barges and 13 towboats make it one of the largest privately owned...
...boondocks of the Cotton South, that stretch of rich soil spreading from Georgia west to the Mississippi River, every black knew one unwritten law: you did not mess with the county sheriff. Oldtime courthouse minstrels in Alabama still guffaw at the memory of P.C. ("Lummie") Jenkins, sheriff of Wilcox County from 1939 to 1971. "Old Lummie had blacks so scared," one such regular recalls, that "all he had to do was pass the word he wanted some nigger in his office in the morning. Sure enough, that nigger'd be there-or he'd fled the county...
...music of America what late 18th century Vienna was to the classical-music era of Europe-the source. In fact, anyone who ponders the long Southern legacy-from jazz to blues, from gospel to bluegrass, and, more lately, truckers' songs-might just begin imagining that the Mississippi has been flowing North all this time. Southern music rose from the common man, but there is nothing common about its variety or the range of lives it touches and consoles. These days "country " is the handiest title to cover a multitude of sounds. At hundreds of festivals across the land, blue...