Central High School - Warrior Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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Srlllflll, GIftN'I'S. like tremendous. hungrj inseets. thrusting their long lirnlus forward to strip the fleery field of its white gold.. or a field full of Negroes. sweaty in the hot September sun. strixing to meet their goal of one hundred pounds a clay - these are familiar scenes in the Mississippi Delta. for it is then that Cotton reaches its maturity and is ready to he picked. NOT ONLY ARE these seenes picturesque and lreautiful: to us in Nlemphis they are xital. Because of her loeation in the heart of the rich cotttan-produeing delta. Nlemphis has ln-eome the largest inland f-otton market in the world: thus the greater part of the eityis 6'f'l'tItltIHlf' welfare is largely dependent upon how mueh cotton is produced in the surrounding area. XlFfNlPlllS l'l'Slfl.l7 IS primarily known for and 1'0IN'f'I'!tf'Il with the marketing of eotton. a romplex operation w hir-h involves the pur- ehasing. selling. or reselling of eotton. 'llhe 1-enter of this eotton activity and the home of the Memphis Cotton Exchange is Front Street. deservedly nicknamed Cotton Rowf' To this tradition-filled street. which has known the tread of innumerable plantation owners and slaves. and has seen many other eolorful sights of our nation's past. the planters send their 4-otton to he graded and marketed.

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