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Newspaper
Petal Paper
Location
Petal, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1963
Page
2
The narrator recalls racist danger and uneasy hospitality as white violence looms outside a Black household. Inside, Mozart, coffee, lamplight, and a Mass at dawn offer fragile normalcy. The diary fragment contrasts welcome at table with fear of reprisals and racial etiquette learned by a Black traveler in the South.
A reader recounts a brief act of kindness on East Side where a man helps a crippled girl with a stubborn crutch tip and later fixes it again, missing his bus. The note suggests such nameless kindness reflects true Christian spirit and praises the fellow as a pretty nice person.
A first person account portrays white Catholic resentment as a Black Catholic man receives communion, exposing racial tensions in a Southern town. The narrator joins Mass, reflects on silence about entrenched segregation, recalls a tenant farmer’s plea for empathy, and describes breakfast with Father and the housekeeper amid a wary town scene of barbershop talk and looming rights struggles.
A reflective verse mulls President Kennedy's death and the era it ushers. It ponders anxiety and hate, the numb hearts seeking comfort, and a nation facing a new Space Age marked by belief in action. The poem asks if youth will fulfill the seeds of change amid sorrow and memory.
The Petal Paper is printed monthly by The Farmer Inc Montgomery and published by East Fulications Co Box 1486 Hattiesburg. It is entered as second class matter at the Petal Mississippi post office under the act of March 8 1879. Return forms to The Petal Paper Box 1480 Hattiesburg Mississippi. Editor and Publisher. Subscriptions offered for one and two years.
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