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... and checked on the progress and talked to the people who attended the membership drives (Johnson 315). These new branches throughout the South became known to many as the Dixie District. The Dixie District was contributing more money than the organization had total by 1916, and added about thirteen new branches and about 738 members in 1917 (Kellogg 134; Johnson 315). By ... ...
... sweet and plain as buttercake. With slim ankles; long, narrow feet. They wash themselves with orange-colored Lifebuoy soap soften their skin with Jergens Lotion They straighten their hair with Dixie Peach, and part it on the side" (82). All of these women practice these methods of care to fit into the glorified version of white beauty. Meanwhile, the narrator ... ...
... society, and the girl he leaves behind mourns at the sight of the tree. For her, the image of this tree brings anguish to the soul: Way Down South in Dixie (break the heart of me) they hung my black young lover to a crossroads tree. The tree is the object on which this girl's lover was hung. Nature becomes a symbol for ... ...
... a white woman is forbidden. Lynchings were done out of pure cruelty and merely as an example to other black men. The poem also addresses white woman by assuring them that "Dixie" which is a southerner's way of saying "the south", will have lynchings to protect them from the evils of black society. All a white woman had to do was simply point her ... ...
