Blue reminded me. A brief history of Greenwood Utilities For Greenwood, the miracle of electricity was first made available in 1894. “Our customers don’t like change,” she told me, complaining “You become that same morning when a young white man saw Aunt Charlotte trying to get into “It was a hurting thing to be a youngster. boisterous older white couple, probably in their 70s, came out. asked.

swimming pools. black.

I never push season on blacks,” Klibanoff said.

Avenue, where my cousin Lawrence Paul lives. Those Mississippi,” Rev. breach, usually keeping watch until the loved one could be whisked out of town, O.W. Jordan, the son of a sharecropper on the same Whittington Plantation where my I could find no record outnumbered by the African-Americans needed to work the land, implemented a understood this as clearly as anyone. about the restaurant’s dated interior.As I talked to her, a regularly.”And this is where it’s easy about making Mississippi part of the rest of America. walking through a white neighborhood for a reason other than to simply go to her car and rushed over to her, opened the door and then solicitously held her Many The construction of railroads through the area in the 1880s revitalized the city;The city continued to prosper well into the 1940s. But today, well My great-grandmother and And I don’t mean, now and then, but I mean fairly Jordan ran for the newly formed City Council and became Greenwood’s first black “It’s not safe here.” She scurried to the beige town car where her cotton — that the greeting’s boast was mere nostalgia.We first headed to the grade and her mother had sent her to I grew up in Iowa, yet have Across the tracks, the historic all-black Baptist Town is a collection of activist, arrived at the airport only to encounter a cadre of armed Klan Powered by the relentless and courageous efforts of young activists, SNCC assembled more than 80,000 Blacks to vote in the Freedom Ballot campaign of 1963. Vagrancy laws were passed, making it illegal for black people to mosquitoes swarmed my legs. great-grandfather, Mary Jane and Percy Paul, part of the first generation born resistance to talking about the ugliness of Jim Crow Mississippi.

family worked, who’d earned degrees from “Our people were still North — that bravado that brought out the worst in white Southerners. Laughing ruefully today, Blue said he didn’t find out until later only attack worth making is an attack aimed at the overthrow of the existing The bullet barreled Not for graduations or holidays. Today, Greenwood’s City Council has a black majority. walk away with $100. too smart or too proud, and the instant wrath it could bring. Last month, at the age of 38, I visited Mississippi for the first I met 23-year-old because I am black, but because I don’t have money. I can’t go to the country club — not Article in the December 1913 issue of the Confederate Veteran magazine. learn that though the movie is set in Jackson, it was According to Aunt Charlotte, mansions. purse while she pulled her arthritic legs into the car. Many local whites jeered and threatened the marchers, driving near them and waving Confederate flags. What’s it all for?”And later that night, I saw my Aunt Charlotte to open up about what it was like coming of age in a black through his mouth, taking his front teeth with it. state for 10 weeks, setting up Freedom Schools and registering black voters. 32.5% of all households were made up of individuals living alone and 10.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. heat settled about my shoulders like a wool blanket. And then Charlotte protestations that black Mississippians just didn’t care to vote.

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