Voices in Our Blood (2001)
“But it wasn’t a joke to me or to the majority of the Mississippi House of Representatives who, by formal resolution, voted on April 1, 1955, that I had lied, slandered my state, and betrayed the South in a Look magazine article (March 22 issue) about the Citizens’ Councils—the militant Southern white groups which have been organized to discourage school integration and Negro suffrage. Perhaps in the history of state legislatures, often citizens have been made liars by legislation. But I doubt t...hat any of them received the accolade under the same conditions as I did. April 1 was the final day of a special legislative session at which our Mississippi lawmakers had been seeking feverishly, and finally with success, to find new money to equalize the dual school systems, as a means of avoiding racial integration. April 1 was as usual the opening day of the turkey hunting season. With four friends, a cook, and a guide, I was turkey hunting forty miles from my home town, Greenville, Mississippi.MoreLess
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