“the doctrine of miscegenation was being practically illustrated.”

epub or mobi, with thanks to the original sharer

They offer their services to you in the street, speak to you in hotel lobbies, call you by telephone, smile alluringly at you through their own front windows, and coo invitingly to you from automobiles parked — with police consent, I assume — along the curbs. Believe it or not, that’s a fact. Professional sinners, therefore — that is, men and women who run gambling houses, dance halls, blind pigs, policy rackets, houses of ill fame, and all that sort of thing — being cash assets for professional politicians, are not only encouraged to operate but are actually instructed to go ahead and provide everybody, both visitors and home folks, with as much wide-open wickedness as possible. Thus no stranger within the gates of Memphis need worry about how to spend either his time or his money.