WHITE HUNTSVILLIAN GIRLS IN THEIR SESQUICENTENNIAL MERRY-MIXERS COSTUMES.......1955.....ON THE LAWN OF THE MADISON COUNTY COURTHOUSE........

 

ALL OF THE BACK-OF-THE-BUS AMERICANS ARE LINED UP, AS BACK-OF-THE-PHOTO  SPECTATORS...WITNESSING THE TRIUMPHANT 'SOUTHERN BELLES' OF HUNTSVILLE 'SOCIETY', DURING THE HEYDAY OF ALABAMA RACISM.....THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF HUNTSVILLE 'NEGROS' ARE, PREDOMINENTLY, OF THEM PICKING COTTON OR IN TOTALLY SUBSURVIENT ROLES TO THEIR CAUCASIAN 'MASTERS'.....THERE WAS NOT A SINGLE 'ORIENTAL' PERSON IN ANY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS THAT I WENT THROUGH THIS MORNING....EITHER......I WAS IN 6TH GRADE WITH THESE OBLIVIOUS 10 YEAR OLDS.....ALL OF THEM WERE 'CHURCH-GOING GIRLS'...BUYING INTO THE ROLES THEY WERE BEING READIED FOR IN THE RIGID NON-QUESTIONED SOCIAL SYSTEM THAT WAS PERVASIVE, THEN........