The county gained wider notoriety as people from other parts of the state found themselves face-to-face with the enforcers of a “whites only” rule that was extraordinary even by the standards of Jim Crow.In September of 1915, the Times-Enterprise of Thomasville, in south Georgia, ran a story mean...
Elegy for a Broken Machine Work-Clothes Quilt With nothing but time and the light of the Singer, and no one to come now forever and rattle the bell at the backdoor and scatter black mud on the stoop, and make that small moan as he heaves off his boots— with no one to fill the big kettle and set i...