I was going to comment on something you said and ask a question but I realize everyone has a right to their opinion. Besides after paying a brief visit to a similar area I'd carry a gun too. I'll only say I'm glad I didn't grow up in the South back then. That's not to take away from other folks' upbringing but that's just how I see it in light of reading about the lives of various immigrants and mixed race people. I hope no one gets offended at what I say because that's not my intention.
You are correct dear.
I am honest with you. Rural Mississippi would not have been ideal for you in Jim Crow. I don't think you would have been shot on sight but were you a freedom riders you could have suffered the same fate as these three. There were 1000s of freedom riders across the South. I know today several. One is a prominant psychologist here in Nashville...a very sweet lady (for a lefty)
It is very very ...peculiar. I knew several somewhat mixed race folks who passed through white society...some at high levels due to oil money.
It would be much easier today. The division of class weighs much more importantly.
In Nashville, which unlike Memphis did not have much Jim Crow struggling but which also has a small black population, it is just about all over economic rather than racial segregation.
If you encountered any raised eyebrows here, it would be rare.
My point was originally that while it was at one time dangerous for black activists in the South. It is now dangerous for white motorists period in parts of the country simply for being white at the wrong place. I have myself been through this. In Jackson it's taken very seriously by residents.