ABSTRACT

This chapter presents an interview of Mr. T. C. Johnson, whose large yard is covered with a carpet of thick green grass. Mr. T. C. Johnson lives in a four-bedroom, white house with a tin top and black trimming. Mr. T. C. Johnson was one of the first to get involved in the Civil Rights Movement in the Lexington area. He sent his children to the white school and ran for the county Board of Supervisors on the Freedom Democratic Party slate in 1967. Robert Clark, a school teacher and basketball coach, was elected as the first black to sit in the Mississippi state legislature since Reconstruction.