Word: moses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Local Color (Mose Allison Trio; Prestige). Pianist-Composer Mose Allison grew up in a dusty, crossroads Mississippi town, and this album tells a lot about it. The selections-Carnival, Mojo Woman, Crepuscular Air-have an engaging funky, blues-flavored quality, abetted by some light and witty Allison solo flights on the piano. Among the most successful is a swinging, wryly humorous ballad about a misunderstood wife-slayer at "the Parchman Farm" who passes his time "puttin' that cotton in a 'leven foot sack/With a 12-gauge shotgun at [his] back...
...Maugansville, Md. bought a new cow. Adin discovered that the cow had an inflammation of the udder. He stopped payment on his check. Sued for the amount ($347), Adin went to court to explain his case. But Mennonite law forbids the brethren to settle disputes in court. Mennonite Bishop Mose's Horst announced that Adin had been excommunicated...
Three days afterward, a corpse was found in the muddy Tallahatchie River. The body was swollen and decomposing, the skull smashed by blows and pierced by a bullet, and a heavy cotton-gin fan was lashed to the neck. Mose Wright said the body was that of his nephew. To the surprise of many Northerners, the Tallahatchie County grand jury promptly indicted two white men for murder: Roy Bryant, 24, storekeeper and ex-paratrooper, husband of the insulted woman; and his half brother, J. W. Milam...
Asked to identify the men who took Emmett Till from his cabin, Mose Wright stood up and pointed a gnarled finger straight at Milam, then at Roy Bryant. The sheriff of neighboring Leflore County related that Bryant and Milam admitted taking Emmett Till, but claimed that they later let him go when they learned he was the wrong boy. The boy's mother testified that the body from the river was her son; on his finger was his dead father's ring, with the initials L.T. (Louis Till). She had cautioned him about Tallahatchie County. She told...
...Tallahatchie County, while the whites rejoiced, the Negroes went about the cotton harvest, sullen-eyed. Willie Reed's family sent him to Chicago. Old Mose Wright and his family plan to move to Albany, N.Y. Tallahatchie County remains 63% Negro-with not one Negro on its rolls of registered voters or on its jury rolls...