Word: yazoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Common Cruelty. What Willie belongs to is the dark, doom-laden Mississippi Delta and the town where he grew up-Yazoo (accent on the second syllable) City. He is adept at conveying the violence that simmers beneath the surface courtliness of the Deep South and often erupts in cruelty to Negroes -a cruelty, he admits, that he shared. At twelve, he pounced on a three-year-old Negro toddler for no good reason and beat him up. "My heart was beating furiously," he recalls, "in terror and a curious pleasure." Until he knew better, he thought only Negro women enjoyed...
...also preserves masses of clippings and miscellaneous photographs, which he somehow manages to unearth when they fit an idea. Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog-which depicts the Moorhead, Miss., crossing of the Southern Railway and the old Yazoo City Line, colloquially known as "the Yellow Dog"-was inspired by a line from W. C. Handy's Yellow Dog Blues that Cloar had jotted down on a scrap of paper...
ROBERT W. COLLINS Commander, U.S.N.R. (ret.) Yazoo City, Mich...
...outfit headed by Publisher William Loeb of the Manchester, N.H., Union Leader, a far-right supporter of Barry Goldwater, and Lawyer John C. Satterfield of Yazoo City, Miss., a former head of the American Bar Association and an avowed states' righter. Much of the committee's money comes from the publicly financed Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission...
...Negro community ... All of their efforts at retaliation so far have been clumsy and amateurish, but the state legislature has just passed a bill making it easy for "municipalities to cooperate in the suppression of riots and civil disturbances." We may well have to contend with the Yazoo City police and the Jackson police as well as the local incompetents. We are not afraid