Author Archives: sec040121

“I was sending news to the Jackson Daily News at the time of the Emmett Till case but was not expected to cover anything as big as that story and so was spared that, though it would have been an interesting … Continue reading →

“The Civil Rights Era, though generally thought of as being the ’60s, really began in Leflore County, Mississippi, in the late summer of 1955 with the brutal killing of a fourteen-year-old Chicago Negro, Emmett Till. “I was working for a … Continue reading →

I have typed up the first installment of Sara’s Civil Rights Era memoirs, which will go online early tomorrow morning. As a rule, I will not be commenting on these posts or  adding background material unless I have something very … Continue reading →

Just a note: I’m going to start posting Sara’s Civil Rights memoir by this weekend, I hope, or Monday at the latest. Please be forewarned, if you have been reading Sara’s stories recently or all the way back to last … Continue reading →

Before we move on to Sara’s Civil Rights Era memoirs, let me tie up the loose ends for those of you who don’t know our family. Russell retired (not altogether willingly) from the grocery business in the late 1980s. He … Continue reading →

“I have never had any delusions of being a skilled writer or of ever writing a book in the hopes that it would be published. Twenty-five years of newspaper reporting and seeing feature stories published with my byline have pretty … Continue reading →

“I would start about Thankgiving cooking for Christmas and would freeze all kinds of goodies. The cutout cookies were one of the first things to go in the freezer and then the cakes. I made enough cakes for me and … Continue reading →

“As little ones kept being added to the family we could always count on having more children around and more presents under the tree to be opened. There were a lot of funny incidents to remember, such as the time … Continue reading →

Don’t give up on Sara’s memoirs; I’m throwing out the leftovers today and hope to be back in business, with at least two more postings, by tomorrow. Happy Thanksgiving and Egg Bowl weekend to all!

“I never had any desire to live anywhere but Greenwood, and the huge oak tree in the backyard which he [Russell] protected with stakes when it was just a twig next to the swing set reminds us that this really … Continue reading →