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Simeon Johnson, of Pearl, Mississippi:
Boot black and farmer and factory hand.
Simeon Johnson, community pillar:
Prayed for the white folk, but preached to his own.
Simeon Johnson was always a worker:
Did any odd jobs that the Pearl folk could find.
But when the time came that he had his own family,
He moved up to Jackson, like turning a page.
Simeon's people were slaves in the old day... [Read the Rest of this Post]
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