A Visit to Jackson, Mississippi

This summer, with my family on a camping trip, I passed briefly through Jackson, Mississippi. I don’t want to write my impressions of that unhappy town, but to limit myself to telling of our meeting with Charles Butts, the young editor of a rather extraordinary paper called the Mississippi Free Press. Mr. Butts, a white college graduate of a northern school who has transplanted himself to Mississippi, proved to be as he had previously been described: polite, reserved, “un...