From Pine View Farm

Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Jim Crow redux.

Aside:

Many years ago, during the height of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, the highest officials from my then-segregated school district drove to New Orleans for some sort of conference. My father later told me that one of them–who went on to serve competently and honorably as the county Superintendent of Schools for many years–told him this anecdote:

In Mississippi, the atmosphere was so hostile that the travelers–all white Southerners, remember–started to fake their accents to sound even more Southern than they already did.

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