For those who haven't read lots of primary documents and history books on the subject, here's a good example of the way they used to put it—and still do.
Your so-called civil rights workers who were killed were nothing but northeastern carpetbaggers, infiltrated by communists, down here to stir up trouble.
(Jimmie L. Morgan, age 70, Aug 29, 2005, Amory, MS)
Folks I’ve got them hungry blues
And nothin’ in this to lose
People tellin’ me to choose
Between dyin’ and lyin’ and keep
on cryin’
Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain’t you heard the news
There’s another thing to choose
A brand new world clean and fine
Where nobody’s hungry
And there’s no color line
A thing like that’s worth
anybody dyin’
I ain’t got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues
James P. Johnson
Langston Hughes
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