04 Jun 1959
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Newspaper
Petal Paper
Location
Petal, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1959
Page
1
A reader praises Nat Hentoff for his HARPER'S piece Race Prejudice In Jazz It Works Both Ways. The writer notes Hentoff's distinguished credentials including three books co editor roles and radio and television work, calling the article well worth reading.
An 1869 Harper’s note recalls a school in Iowa where mixed pupils used separate water buckets. After the Fourteenth Amendment, a Black family’s children join the same school and confronts the old “two-bucket” order. A white boy’s shout spurs a counter from a Black student about one-bucket thinking.
A reader blasts Harper Brothers for publishing works seen as corrupting and divisive. He cites An American Dilemma and The Rabbit's Wedding, banned in Alabama for depicting a white rabbit marrying a black one. The Montgomery Home News is praised for publicizing the issue.
Preston Collins of Washington, D. C. sends a check to aid Koinonia Farm Georgia, denouncing Harold Austin and Southern "un ending record of assaults on simple human decency." He calls for a flood of donations to counter regional bigotry and hypocrisy.
In Brainerd Minnesota a massive image of Paul Bunyan the lumberjack hero stands as a local landmark. The folklore figure known for logging legends is linked to the tale of using a trimmed pine tree as a pencil.
An offer promotes Cotton Eyelet Embroidery for summer wear in Mississippi with political overtones. It riffs on Klukkers and dues, marketing sheets as comfort gear for night rides of mercy and urging prompt orders to a fictitious address in Degradation Mississippi amid election year tension.
A Mississippi columnist uses a satirical tale of St. Peter at heaven’s gate to question racial segregation in the afterlife. The piece probes whether heaven would be split by race and recalls voting-rights tensions in Mississippi. The satire ends with doubt about any real change.
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