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Mayor William Joseph Byrne of sleepy Natchez, Mass. (pop. 15.296) is a man who likes a fine grimy factory smoking up Southern skies, freight trains bumping and clattering musically on jasmine-scented nights, all the noise, payrolls and progress that come with industrialization. Last week Mayor Byrne was an unhappy man, for commerce was dislocated. The struggle that Natchez has dreaded for four years had begun in earnest: the two garden clubs of the town were in open battle.Natchez citizens heard the sinister sound that is produced only by the flouncing of hoop skirts to the accompaniment of a sniff...
...years ago the famed Natchez Pilgrimages began. There are 40-odd fine old homes in varied stages of repair and restoration within six miles of Natchez, and at the low point of the Depression, Southern homeowners discovered that visitors were still willing to pay a fee to inspect them. In no time the Pilgrimage was an institution. Each spring pretty girls in hoop skirts and pantalettes flounced over the pavements, rode about in carriages that quaintly messed up traffic. (By unwritten law, males who dressed up one year were let off the next.) For $2 a visitor could...
This year one Pilgrimage began before the other ended. Winding up their three weeks, Pilgrimage Garden Club ladies were outraged that the Natchez Garden Club was opening its tours with a bal1151;"with our tourists still in town!" Because of weather and the demand, the Pilgrimage Garden Club ladies decided to keep going indefinitely. Asked whether this was retaliation, its executive secretary replied: "We don't know anything of such tactics.The Natchez we know and love is the Natchez of ladies and gentlemen. That is the city we are trying to recreate as it was before the War between...
Rival banners spanned the streets of Natchez. Negro orchestras played steadily on the rival club verandas. Visitors and people just passing through were dragged first one way, then another. Last week the Natchez Club secured a temporary injunction against its rival, alleging that the Pilgrimage Club's extension of time was an unfair attempt to capitalize on the Natchez Club's enterprise and publicity...
Authors Dollard & Davis sketched in their background with a few statistics: e.g., in Natchez the average Negro family's income is less than $400 a year; one child in three is a bastard. A Pullman porter rates as middle-middle class; a family with $250 a month is upper-middle class; more than three-fourths of Negroes are lower class; a Negro's social standing rises according to the lightness of his skin, the straightness of his hair. Case histories...