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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...
...lesser offenses, Denaburg says, "They have a hell of a lot of whiskey houses operating in niggertown. It doesn't really hurt society for Negroes to sit in a house and drink whiskey and have skin games. They're not bothering anyone else besides themselves...
...Negroes retreated to "Niggertown" on the northwest edge of the city, announced that no whites were welcome...
...could devote his entire mind and energy to the 47 Workshop. In the first two weeks after his return to Cambridge, Wolfe submitted the first acts of six projected plays to Professor Baker. At Baker's request he concentrated on one of these plays, which he had tentatively titled Niggertown. During the course of the winter he developed it into an unconventional ten scene form, and renamed it Welcome to Our City as a concession to the remaining vestiges of Cambridge abolutionism. It was performed in Agassiz Theater on May 12 and 13, 1923, and is generally thought to have...
...found it little changed. The drugstore would still not serve him water in a glass, gave him a paper cup. Negro schoolchildren could still get books from the public library only by sending their teacher for them. But there were a few differences. Amid the shanties of "Niggertown" were rows of neat new houses which Negro veterans had built, with federal...