Article: Jackson, Miss.: The City Time Remembers; Has It Really Changed Since The Murder of Medgar Evers?

Enter Byron De La Beckwith's worst nightmare: Three o'clock in the morning in a downtown juke joint called the Subway Lounge and the place - as loud as a machine shop, as smoky as a tenement fire - is packed. The clientele is passing around cans of beer in ice buckets stolen from the chic-sleazy Sun 'n Sand motel as bluesman King Edward is wailing "I got my mojo working."

And here, baby-faced debutantes - good Southern white women from Methodist Millsaps College - are playfully grinding against tall, black men in long leather jackets and cowboy hats with rooster feathers, giggling as the men pour two, three, four fingers of whiskey in the sorority sisters' glasses.

Jackson, Miss., ...

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