Chuck Edwards
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Don't Judge A Book
Don’t Judge A Book The 1960’s were a volatile time in America’s history. Political divide, racial injustice and a musical soundscape that spewed lyrical protest toward the war in Vietnam. Benny hailed from Meridian Mississippi and just after high school his number came up in the draft. The old south had taught Benny, an African American to question and to be leery of the world. His father had been a second-generation sharecropper and barely able to feed his family of eight. Benny was more enlightened than his parents and siblings. He had been given an old tube radio by a man Benny dug a drainage ditch for. In lieu of money, the man paid Benny with the antique radio that still worked quite well. The radio became a companion to Benny and gave him a window to the world far reaching the mid-south. Mystery Theatre and other programs of that era helped Benny use his imagination more vividly than a television which the family never owned.
By Chuck Edwards3 years ago in Serve