Note: Discussion of compelling local African Americans (including children) to pick cotton and instances of resistance. Lomax asks about the baddest men in the area; Starks recalls various fights, whoopings, and Bud Doggett. "Mississippi was the best place on earth for a good nigger and the worst place for a bad nigger." Says his grandmother, a "slavery-time woman," always taught him to be obedient to white folks.
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