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Graduate of the
All-White High School,

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first year of
Integration-by-Choice.

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I did not participate.

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I was in the theater practicing.

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I was a smart kid and I, sort
of, knew I was going to leave,

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and that high school
was just something

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you had to get through to
get to the rest of your life.

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All-Negro High School Annual.

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Best dancer, one of the boys
beaten by the Night Riders.

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Biggest wolf, son
of one of the boys

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blinded by the Night Riders.

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Friendliest, his brother who
jumped from the overpass.

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Best Running Back, his
cousin, went pro in Canada.

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Smartest, her cousin
had his own car.

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He drove her to Ohio still
wearing her cap and gown.

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Atmospheric washes of sound

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play it muddy

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play it freaking loud

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lights sputtering
out and crackling

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the only sure thing in
those days were the prices

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Jack Sprat teabags only $0.19

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a whole fryer is $0.59

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a half gallon of Purex $0.25

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2 pounds of Oleo $0.25

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Ivory soap $0.10 a bar

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Cherokee freestone
peaches, five cans for $1

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and the temperatures

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Los Angeles enters its sixth
day of rioting, 32 dead

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Chicago's rebellion ends in two

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KKK's lawyer dies in Birmingham

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Hurricane Camille
sacks Pass Christian

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the president of the
Cosmos Club holds a tea

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soybean cyst nematode pits the
county's crop under quarantine

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three Brinkley children
die in an ice box

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it is time to pick the cotton.

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Radio Ministry, every chosen
one of us is guilty as sin.

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And sin is on everything
a sinner ever touched,

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from toilet seat to door
knob to gavel to gun lock.

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Now, get in that goddamn water
and swim with the rest of them.

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I must have misheard him.

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The Savoys

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Come again

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My band.

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We were the Savoys.

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Her Friend Birdie.

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We couldn't wait to go to
V's house in the afternoon.

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Dell would call and say let's
go to V's, and I would say,

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I've got to yadayadayadayada.

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And Dell would say, just
squirt some furniture polish

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in the air and Joey
will think you've

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been cleaning all afternoon.

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The first time I met her, she
told me about her goldfish

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committing suicide.

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She showed me a
picture of her daddy.

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How old do you think
he is in this picture?

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Hah, she said, he
was an alcoholic

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and he was only 58 years old.

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She would have Enrico
Caruso, and Nina Simone,

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and Segovia, Bach,
and Leonard Cohen,

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and Joan Baez and the Man in
Black, all on the same stack.

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We had a whole education
in fine arts and literature

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in her living room.

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You've got to read this and
you've got to read that.

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She had a lending
library going on.

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You're not ready for
James Joyce, she told me,

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and I never did
read James Joyce.

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I just accepted it.

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We went big into T.S. Eliot,
so I knew all about Cats

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before it ever got to Broadway.

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We listened to A Child's
Christmas in Wales every year.

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Dell and her husband,
Joey, made it over to Wales

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and laid a rose on
the drunkard's stone.

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She could have been a master
teacher, but she said, no,

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she couldn't.

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She said she had
nothing but contempt

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for her teacher
when she discovered

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she didn't know Swinburne.

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One ought to admit V
could rise in record time

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to the condition of contempt.

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Her Friend the Actor.

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She once got on a wrathful
tear about a particular member

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of Congress or some churlish
priest and ended up on her feet

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in a lively enactment of how
she would like to saw that MF

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in half left-handed.

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I guess an untidy job of
it would hurt a lot more.

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She kept her Saigon
cinnamon in her purse

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so the fifth boy child
couldn't get his hands on it,

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dragged her sewing
machine to her porch

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because she did not want
to have to look at it

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When she had cancer, after
the last child was born

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and had a hysterectomy, she
didn't want anyone to know.

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She didn't want them
saying, that poor woman

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with all those children
and now she's got cancer.

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She completed the circle of
this life in Hell's Kitchen

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the attending doctor
lived upstairs

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he and his partner nailed
a small brass plaque

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to the barren pear
outside her window

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her name, date of
birth, date of death

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the mule train march
has been canceled

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the preachers are staying home

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the March Against Fear is on

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the Man Imported from
Memphis is walking

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The combines are
moving into position

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Local Man, I was going to
put a meat grinder on mine.

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The Man Imported from Memphis
had never laid eyes on her

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before, this is not
exactly a love story.

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She pulled up beside him on
the curve on the wrong side

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of the street.

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He's dead, she yelled.

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He's dead!

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Who's dead?

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Hunter Crumb, he's dead!

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Having just seen the
prosecutor in his office,

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having been there
within the hour

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trying to obtain
permits for the march,

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the Invader is taken aback.

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He says to himself,
this crazy white woman

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thinks I killed him.

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Now she is going to kill me.

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Come here, I want to
give you something.

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No, I don't think I'll be
coming over there, ma'am.

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No, come over here.

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I want to give you something.

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Mr invader thinks
he's about to become

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Mr Goner and politely
declines to approach.

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She flings a gold chain at
him and squalls off the curb.

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Bling bling.

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That's how they met.

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Vines support an abandoned shack

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vines conceal abandoned
farm implements

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people are walking out
of the ragged fields

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vines threaten the utility pole

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vines protect the
copperhead from the hoe

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cottonwoods flutter as one

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bats at the cell tower

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the tub in which
James Earl Ray stood

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to slay the king has sold online

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watch out for that phantom punch

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it's like a river
running backwards

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the Man Imported from Memphis

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credits a rubber shrunken head

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he wears around his neck

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for keeping the skies overcast

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and temperatures down

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If white people can
ride down the highways

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with guns in their trucks

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I can walk down
the highway unarmed

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Scott Bond, born a slave,
became a millionaire

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wouldn't you like to
run wild, run free?

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The very Reverend Al Green

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Hailed from here

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Sonny Liston a few miles west

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Sand Slough head hardened
on hickory sticks.

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