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...group-called Freedom Farms Co-Op-is trying to buy a 640-acretract of land in Mississippi's Sunflower County. On the land-which is now owned by a white planter-the group wants to set up a farmers' cooperative for the blacks of one of the nation's poorest regions...
...Bank of America, the largest financial institution in the world, was founded by an Italian-American, A. P. Giannini. The Planter Peanut Company was founded by another Italian-American, Amedeo Obici...
...problems will be soon and well settled in our own uniquely African manner. Our experience has a lot in common with the American Civil War. The contrasts are, however, more striking. The old divisions in America are still there-between Yankee and Rebel, Northerner and Southerner, industrialist and planter, white and black. We do not have such sharp divisions. Nobody can suggest that by this time next century we shall still be struggling with the aftermath of this civil...
...after Mrs. Hamer's plea, Harrison Wellford, teaching fellow in Government, was able to send her the $1300--plus an undisclosed surplus--from collections in Cambridge. With the money, the co-op was able to beat the option deadline and keep the land from being sold to a white planter...
...Williams called her a cross between a tiger and a moth, and her performance offstage was the true measure of the actress. Lavish beyond redemption, garrulous beyond recall, Tallulah chain-smoked, talked and caroused like a longshoreman. She was known to romp around her apartment in the nude drinking planter's punch-and sometimes greeted friends at the door in the same state of undress. Tallulah refused to remember anyone's name (she once introduced a friend named Olive as "Martini"), liked to break up stuffy parties by doing cartwheels or tossing the other ladies' shoes...