My dad was from Mississippi. His family left when he was a child and came to Chicago. His grandmother, was born in 1860 and died in 1969. So, she was born into slavery and died during the civil rights movement after the 1965 Voting Rights Act had been passed, that did not help Blacks in the South to vote unless the Feds came and oversaw the registration and elections. I have never been to Mississippi and never want to go. It is why I travel reluctantly through the former East German states on my way to Berlin. There are some places that haven't changed enough. I don't need to get off the train to experience it, I can experience it from the people who migrated north. I am thinking of a particular Mississippian who made my life pretty miserable because she did not like the Black, nor the German side of me. Too direct, too outspoken! Oh well!
“Well, I’m sitting over there on Parchman Farm,” Mose Allison
Here he is! https://youtu.be/RRAYLabbHPk?si=DJRSfI6z65Cm3_6O
https://innocenceproject.org/news/the-lasting-legacy-of-parchman-farm-the-prison-modeled-after-a-slave-plantation/
My dad was from Mississippi. His family left when he was a child and came to Chicago. His grandmother, was born in 1860 and died in 1969. So, she was born into slavery and died during the civil rights movement after the 1965 Voting Rights Act had been passed, that did not help Blacks in the South to vote unless the Feds came and oversaw the registration and elections. I have never been to Mississippi and never want to go. It is why I travel reluctantly through the former East German states on my way to Berlin. There are some places that haven't changed enough. I don't need to get off the train to experience it, I can experience it from the people who migrated north. I am thinking of a particular Mississippian who made my life pretty miserable because she did not like the Black, nor the German side of me. Too direct, too outspoken! Oh well!