Word: niggertown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mattie Hawkins, ran a grocery store outside town near the Rose Hill Cemetery. Clinton, who was often in the store as a child, remembers its clientele as half black, but his cousin Falva Lively says, "Oh, it was more than that. It was in what used to be called Niggertown." Clinton praises his grandfather for extending credit to poor black customers, but that was the only way to do business with people seasonally employed. Clinton also says he learned tolerance from his grandfather -- but it is a lesson the man did not pass on to his own daughter, Clinton...