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Chapter 8 Sitting on their wide verandas,

Wealthy Negroes have white servants, White sharecroppers work the black plantations, And colored children have white mammies: Mammy Faubus Mammy Eastland Mammy Wallace Dear, dear darling old white mammies-- Sometimes even buried with our family. dear old Mammy Faubus! <i>Culture, they say, is a two-way street:</i> Hand me my mint julep, mammny. Hurry up! Make haste!

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