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Whoooooo bellowed the steamboat whistles. "Hey, look!" yelled the crowd. "Looka yonder! Hyeh they come!" The big barge nosed across the yellow water toward the brown river bank at the edge of Jefferson Davis Park. "Great Lawd, look at the Niggers on those cotton bales." guffawed the crowd. "Naked as jay-birds. What they supposed to be, Egyptian slaves or something? It says here in the program: 'Egyptian Pageant, Memphis on the Nile in the Time of Menes, First Prince of Memphis."
Pageant King Frank Barton, ex-Culver, ex-Princeton, ex-president of the...
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