“Studies in Crap” Discovers Why We Had a 1960’s: “Weep No More, My Lady”

Each Thursday, your

Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering

crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea

markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.

Weep No More, My Lady

Author:

W.E. Debnam

Publisher:

The Graphic Press, Raleigh, North Carolina

Date:

1950

Discovered at:

Charity Thrift Mart on Noland Road in Independence

The Cover Promises: A chivalrous Southern gentleman considers Eleanor Roosevelt’s remarks concerning “poverty and unhappiness” beneath the Mason Dixon Line. ALSO: It is chivalrous and gentlemanly to depict Mrs. Roosevelt as a hideous bucktoothed crone.

Representative

Quotes:

“In

the case of Harlem and those slums in the back yard of the Capitol in

Washington, you can’t escape it even if you close your eyes. They

smell to high heaven.”

(page 11)

“No

one can visit the south today – that is, no one who keeps his eyes

open – and not be profoundly impressed with the economic and

intellectual renaissance going on.” (page 46).