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...personnel of the deliberating group included assorted college presidents, a Columbia, S. C. lawyer, two minor judges, a C. I. O. organizer, an A. F. of L. delegate, Publisher Barry Bingham of the Louisville Courier-Journal, a representative of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. Southern business was represented by a lumber man from Picayune, Miss., a Birmingham banker, an aviation-company official from Dallas, a Virginia utility man, a Ken tucky varnish maker, and President J. Skottowe Wannamaker of the American Cotton Association...
Author Daniels talked philosophy with Tennessee agrarians, interviewed David Lilienthal of TVA, investigated TVA's town of Norris, observed the astonishingly pretty girls of Memphis, and looked over the model plantation set up by the Emergency Relief Administration at Dyess, Ark. He talked to organizers of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, to planters, to bespectacled, intellectual Oscar Johnston, resident president of Delta and Pine Land Co., operators of the biggest U. S. cotton plantation. He looked in on a historic, 100-year-old brothel in Vicksburg, and talked with an educated Negro who told him that white folks...
Most of the cotton South's 1,700,000 tenant farmers live by The Book, and The Book is not the Holy Bible. It is a ledger where "furnish" is entered. Furnish is credit for "side meat" (salt pork), molasses, corn meal, seed, sometimes for a mule and a plow. Landlords, or merchants dependent upon them, run The Book. Without furnish, few tenants could live through the winter, or plant in the spring...
...fall, after The Book is toted, a tenant's crop may not be worth enough to pay for what he owes. If cotton is selling at io/ a Ib. or better, he may receive one or two hundred dollars. But he has an immense yearning for a store suit, a cotton dress for his wife, a few pretties for his children, perhaps a second-hand Chevrolet or a splendid, ancient Studebaker. So, either way he goes on living by The Book...
Chief difference between Negro Less Taylor, a tenant on the J. W. Copeland plantation in Washington County, Miss., and 200,000 other sharecroppers and renters in Mississippi, is that Less Taylor got for his lawyer old Percy Bell of Greenville, onetime chancery judge and independent as a hog on ice. Chief difference between Landlord Copeland and many another in the Yazoo Delta is that he did not get away with making a good thing of The Book. At Jackson last week, the supreme court of Mississippi reversed a Washington County Chancery judgment, declared: "According to the appellee's [Copeland...