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...cause which Editor-Publisher George B. Lay hit upon seemed germane to the whole state of South Carolina. It derived from a lady living near the centre of the state on Lang Syne Plantation, 40 miles from Columbia. She, Mrs. Julia Peterkin, began acquiring national distinction as an authoress five years ago when she published Green Thursday, followed in 1927 by Black April. All her major characters are South Carolina Negroes, drawn as she has known them all her life on a South Carolina plantation. Not everything that plantation Negroes do is charming or even pleasant to contemplate. But nearly...
Last Autumn when Mrs. Peterkin announced a book called Scarlet Sister Mary, librarians throughout South Carolina ordered copies as a matter of course. They were a little taken aback to read the publisher's blurb that this was "the story of the harlot of Blue Brook Plantation.'' But since there are black harlots on some plantations, and everyone knows it, most South Carolina librarians read the book anyway and put it on the shelves...
...Librarian Mattie Pearson of Gaffney. She concluded that Scarlet Sister Mary was too promiscuous, even if she was the brainchild of Mrs. Peterkin. Mrs. Pearson saw to it that the book stayed off the public shelves of Gaffney. When Gaffneyans came asking for Scarlet Sister Mary they were told she had been suppressed for immorality...
...Evans's section 2 Hale-Young Sever 6 Mr. McCoy's section 3 Sever 6 German 5 Sever 30 German 7 Sever 29 Government 9a Memorial Hall Greek 12 Sever 29 History 5b New Lect. Hall History 8 Emerson J History 9 Harvard 6 Latin B Mr. Peterkin, I Sever 17 Prof. Rand, II Sever 18 Mr. Sherman, III Sever 23 Latin 1 Sever 24 Mathematics C II Sever 36 Mathematics 2, sect. 1 Sever 35 Mathematics 5b Harvard 5 Mathematics 11 Emerson J Music 3a Music Bldg. Philosophy 19 Emerson A Semitic 43 Sever 29 Spanish 5 Emerson...
...Fogg Lect. Rm. French 7 Emerson D Geology 8 Harvard 6 German 1b Sever 5, 6 German 5 Sever 30 German 7 Sever 29 Government 9a Memorial Hall Greek 12 Sever 29 History 5b New Lect. Hall History 8 Emerson J History 9 Harvard 6 Latin B Mr. Peterkin, I Sever 17 Prof. Rand, II Sever 18 Mr. Sherman, III Sever 23 Latin 1 Sever 24 Mathematics C II Sever 36 Mathematics 2, sect. 1 Sever 35 Mathematics 5b Harvard 5 Mathematics 11 Emerson J Music 3a Music Bldg. Philosophy 19 Emerson A Semitic 13 Sever 29 Spanish 5 Emerson...