Eugene+Talmadge+and+Truman+Stroud


 * __LAWN JOCKEY BACKGROUND__**

Lawn jockeys have it's root in the tale of one Jocko Graves, who was an African American youth who served George Washington at the time that they crossed Delaware to carry out an attack on British Forces. George Washington thought he was too young so he left him in Pennsylvania to tend the horses. The boy faithful to his post and his orders, frosze to death on the river bank during the night, the lantern still in his hand. The General was so moved that he made a statue of him.

The figures were also used in the days of the Underground Railroad to guide escaping slaves to freedom. Green ribbons tied to the arms of the statues meant safety, and the red ones meant to keep going. Sadly many lawn jockey have been destroyed because of the thinking that they are a racial slur to African-Americans. But in thruth from what is posted above one could see that, that isn't true. __** EUGENE TALMADGE **__ Eugene Talmage was govener of Georgia four differnt times. At the beggining when Roosevelt introduced the New Deal he supported him. Then later he began to fear the new deal because he thought it was threateing Georgia's way of life. For example when the proposal for minimum wage came he opposed it sayin that why should he pay min. wage to a boy who rolls a wheelbarrow that if he did the state wouldn't have enough money to pay the picking bill. Also Talmadge didn't support integration of schools. Talmadge would fire any collage professer who favored communism or racial equality. He wanted African-Americans in their "place."

__**THE JOKE on pg. 44**__ He took a drag on the cigarette ln his right hand and put his left hand on the head of the lawn jockey beside his chair. " Where'd you get that little statue?" my mother asked him. " This boy?" He patted the statue's head. "I had him a long time. This here is Eugene. Eugene Talmadge." My mother laughed, but I didn't see why that was funny.

The joke **PROBABLY** means that at the beinning Talmadge was a good person and wanted to help people but at the end he made people suffer. And the lawn jockeies were used to help people but at the end it turned out to discriminate them