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All he had so far was the credits Executive Producer Carl Ford and the introductory banjo music. And like all poor, white, ignorant trash, he was in it for himself. Some people are far too enamored of the idea that he was Martin Luther King, and these are the same people who believe the War Between the States was about slavery, when nothing could be further from the truth. There seemed no point in arguing with him, and it was almost impossible to get a word in, so I sat there scribbling as he launched into a long monologue that defended slavery and the first incarnation of the Klan, burrowed deep into obscure Civil War battle minutiae, denied all charges of racism, and kept circling back to denounce Newt Knight and the simpering fools who tried to project their liberal agendas on him.

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Joseph Hosey is a Jones County forester and wild mushroom harvester who was hired as an extra for the movie and ended up playing a core member of the Knight Company. Scruffy and rail-thin with piercing blue eyes and a full beard, he looks like he subsists on Confederate Army rations and the occasional squirrel. A few years later, there was a vote on it, and the names were changed back. Thank God, because that would have sucked.

Like his grandfather before him, Hosey is a great admirer of Newt Knight. It made me really wish my grandfather was still alive, because we were always saying someone should make a movie about Newt. I ask him what he admires most about Knight. Newt Knight gives me something in my heritage, as a white Southerner, that I can feel proud about. After Reconstruction, with the former Confederates back in charge, the Klan after him, and Jim Crow segregation laws being passed, Knight retreated from public life to his homestead on the Jasper County border, which he shared with Rachel until her death in , and continued to share with her children and grandchildren.

He lived the self-sufficient life of a yeoman Piney Woods farmer, doted on his swelling ranks of children and grandchildren, and withdrew completely from white society. He gave that single long interview in , revealing a laconic sense of humor and a strong sense of right and wrong, and he died the following year, in February He was 84 years old. So Hosey drove up to the locked gate, and then swiped up the relevant photographs on his phone. Even in death, he defied them. The two sisters sitting across the table were gently amused. They had seen this many times before.

It was, in fact, the normal reaction when they tried to explain their family tree to outsiders. After many decades of living in the outside world, they are back in Soso, Mississippi, dealing with prejudice from all directions.


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The worst of it comes from within their extended family. For simplification, she said that there were three basic groups. The White Knights are descended from Newt and Serena, are often pro-Confederate, and proud of their pure white bloodlines. In , one of them, Ethel Knight, published a vitriolic indictment of Newt as a traitor to the Confederacy. The White Negroes a.

After Rachel died, Newt and Georgeanne had children.

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And he kept trying to marry out the color, so we would all keep getting lighter-skinned. We have to tell our young people, do not date in the Soso area. All Knights are hardworking and very capable. In the film, Marsh and Blaylock appear briefly in a courthouse scene. For the two of them, the Knight family saga has continued into the 20th century and beyond.

Their cousin Davis Knight, who looked white and claimed to be white, was tried for the crime of miscegenation in , after marrying a white woman. The trial was a study in Mississippian absurdity, paradox, contradiction and racial obsessiveness. A white man was convicted of being black; the conviction was overturned; he became legally white again.

I have so much respect for both of them. Continue or Give a Gift. Privacy Policy , Terms of Use Sign up. SmartNews History. History Archaeology. World History. Science Age of Humans. Future of Space Exploration. Human Behavior. Our Planet. Earth Optimism Summit. Ingenuity Ingenuity Awards. The Innovative Spirit. Travel Taiwan. American South. Travel With Us.

At the Smithsonian Visit. New Research. Curators' Corner. Ask Smithsonian. Photos Submit to Our Contest. Photo of the Day. Video Ingenuity Awards. Smithsonian Channel. Video Contest. Games Daily Sudoku. Universal Crossword. She continued to do so even after death and her ghost now warns away strangers, waving her hook at those who come to close to the grave. Another story also serves as a warning to teenagers who park in cars. In this tale, a young couple goes for a drive in the state forest at night.

Angry, the boy forces her to get out of the car and he drives away, leaving her alone in the dark woods. The girl vanishes without a trace and her mother begins endlessly searching the forest for the girl until she too vanishes. Today, her ghost appears in the vicinity of the cemetery and prowls about in the darkness. It is said that her face suddenly appears outside, peering into the windows. While the stories have changed many times over the years, it does seem possible that the story of the woman in black may have been based on a real event that occurred many years ago.

True or not though, Stepp Cemetery has become a landmark in the Morgan-Monroe State Forest and is a popular stop for ghost hunters, curiosity-seekers and those with an interest in eerie folklore. Many of those who come here wonder if the story of the ghostly woman can be true? Perhaps the story is just a compelling piece of Hoosier folklore, or perhaps not.

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If the old stump truly exists, they ponder, can they woman in black exist as well? Stepp Cemetery is located north of Bloomington, Indiana on Highway There is a stone wall alongside the road in the Morgan-Monroe State Forest and a dirt path there leads back to the cemetery. The Porticos. The Porticos is a former restaurant that was supposedly haunted by the ghosts of young children.

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When this place was a restaurant, people claimed to see a little girl's face in the bathroom mirror. Customers also complained of hearing children laughing and playing upstairs while in the dining room below. First-hand experiences from a former employee:. I worked at Porticos for Dr. Lewellan who at that time owned the restaurant.

I had heard of all the stories and even tried to get them to let me go into the tunnel in the basement, which runs across downtown to what is now a bank, I believe.

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But the door to the tunnel has been locked tight, as they say a lot of the tunnel has caved in. The house was very interesting, with all the hidden entries etc.

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Our boss at the time, Steve, had his office in what we call the attic. This attic was huge and I was told that at one time it was a room full of beds for sick boys or slaves awaiting transfer. The door to this attic had a lock on the outside a very old deadbolt instead of on the inside, and you have to use a key once inside to get outside.

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There is a basement, which is like a dungeon and also has the door to the tunnel. The first floor contsisted of the kitchen in the back, dining areas, and foyer, with a solid wood door that has a huge bar running across it to lock. From the foyer you could go to the third floor, which was known to have been the master bedroom, and had an old safe behind a picture.

There was a smaller room on the third floor, that gave everyone the creeps, and the public restrooms were located on this floor, as well as a long corridor which ended at a staircase that led back down to the kitchen. The fourth floor was the attic. Our public restrooms were located right next to the attic door.