Anne Moody recalls the shock of most of her teachers being white at this state’s Tougaloo College in a memoir about “coming of age” in this state. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this state that is the setting of I Am More Than a Wolf Whistle, a controversial and revisionist memoir written by Carolyn Bryant and leaked by Timothy Tyson in 2022.
ANSWER: Mississippi [or MS; accept Coming of Age in Mississippi] (The Bryant memoir was supposed to be published after her death, but was leaked in 2022.)
[10e] Moody recalls a general nervousness after the 1955 death of this person, whom Bryant falsely accused of flirting with her. This person’s body was returned from Mississippi to Chicago for display in an open casket.
ANSWER: Emmett Till [or Emmett Louis Till]
[10h] This author calls the ruins of Bryant’s Grocery store the “ghostliest structure in the South” in his book Deep South, a contemporary travelogue in the fashion of Civil Rights Era journalism.
ANSWER: Paul Theroux [or Paul Edward Theroux]
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