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...Greenwood down to Jackson...My first real taste of the Mississippi sun dropping westward ever so slowly and flaying the cotton-frothed, billiard table flatness of the Delta. Stilted shacks in willow-ringed hollows; tall merciless lilywhite factory stacks; "The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Welcome you to Tchula;" grinning, barefoot, ragged black boys skimming along the highway on a pickup truck; Tall, gaunt, stooped, tobacco chewing, strawhatted farmers--black and white. Neat brick middle-class American homes...Troopers and policemen everywhere, fat comic opera sherrifs in stenciled boots and stetsons. "K.O. the Kennedys!--Vote Rubel Phillips (Rep)" billboards...

Author: By Claude Weaver, | Title: Letters From The Delta: Ole Miss As Police State | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

...flapper but would like to correspond with men and women between the ages of 25 and 32." Fat Nellie Wallace wrote that in Tchula, Miss.; lonely Joe Sleet read it in El Paso, in the advertising columns of a magazine. He wrote to Nellie Wallace and sent her a lock of hair. That was ten months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 27, 1928 | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

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