Social Stratification in the American South

"We got into a discussion about why the Shack Up Inn might be offensive. We discovered that the shacks on the plantation were not originally there, and that they are, possibly, not slave quarters, but rather, the domiciles occupied by sharecroppers. Further discussion highlighted..." <Read All>

"We just left Parchman / Mississippi State Penitentiary and I still hear the lyrics of the song by Bishop Larry Trotter, only this time in the voice of an inmate by the name of Walter Lott whose testimony we heard today, ironically in the prison chapel. Parts of Walter’s speech sounded like it was impressed into his head, like the fist of the prison official, by those who decided his final resting place and by a society convinced that only an individual’s voluntary actions determine his path in life."