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re: Anybody here from Lake Providence?
Posted on 7/25/23 at 4:30 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 7/25/23 at 4:30 pm to Jim Rockford
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After white Democrats regained power in the state legislature after the Reconstruction Era, they worked to reimpose white supremacy. Many blacks worked as sharecroppers or tenant farmers in the region. In 1898, Louisiana, like other southern states, enacted a new constitution, designed to maintain Democratic Party dominance and forestall any alliances such as the Populist-Republican alliance that had won seats in the 1890s. They included provisions that raised barriers to voter registration and elections, effectively disfranchising most blacks despite their constitutional 15th Amendment right to vote. Their exclusion from the political system made them second-class citizens.
The civil rights movement of the post-World War II period from the 1940s through the 1960s brought efforts of a new generation to make constitutional rights more equitable. Until 1962, no African Americans had been allowed to register to vote in Lake Providence
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Posted on 7/25/23 at 4:31 pm to Honest Tune
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Scott Matthews- yall know him ? Raises hand.
How u know Scott ? He was my PT partner in the academy, 1991
This post was edited on 7/25/23 at 4:32 pm
Posted on 7/25/23 at 4:31 pm to Dixie2023
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She wishes she could sell one day and get over to Vicksburg.
Damn, movin' up in the world!
Posted on 7/25/23 at 4:33 pm to Jim Rockford
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Either no TDers live there (doubtful) or they dont want to out themselves
I know of one that posts on the OB every once in a blue moon.
I opened this thread just to see if he posted.
Posted on 7/25/23 at 4:49 pm to SFVtiger
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Waterproof,
Waterproof makes Lake Providence look like Malibu, but right outside the city limits is a farm equipment dealership with about $15 million in inventory sitting on the lot at any given time.
Posted on 7/25/23 at 4:51 pm to Jim Rockford
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Waterproof makes Lake Providence look like Malibu, but right outside the city limits is a farm equipment dealership
Not no more
Posted on 7/25/23 at 4:54 pm to LSUballs
Goldman's is gone?
Posted on 7/25/23 at 4:56 pm to EF Hutton
Nevermind, different SM. He hunts a good club close to the river.
Posted on 7/25/23 at 4:57 pm to Jim Rockford
Yes. The OG store in Goldman is. Has been for a few years. There are still plenty others scattered about..
Posted on 7/25/23 at 5:15 pm to LSUballs
College roommates family from there. Big plantation like farmers, rich as duck. Do we all know the same people or is there a bunch of rich fricks there ?????
Posted on 7/25/23 at 6:16 pm to Got Blaze
The downfall of Melville started with Huey P. Long. He didn’t like the political support he got there so he had Hwy. 71 go from Lebeau to Krotz Springs and hit Hwy. 190. They built the bridge over the Atchafalaya in Krotz Spring even though it would have been a shorter route through Melville. Once the bridge was opened Melville started dying as a result of no one passing through there anymore. The final nail in the coffin was once the ferry shut down.
Posted on 7/25/23 at 6:19 pm to S
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I know an OT 8.7 from Melville
Hell I knew an easy 9.5 from Melville. Ok she was from Krotz Springs but graduated from Melville High.
Posted on 7/25/23 at 6:23 pm to Got Blaze
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Cannatellas closed the only grocery store last year
Man they had a nice camp out in the woods around Melville. I remember one Christmas party out there in particular.
Posted on 7/25/23 at 6:28 pm to FlagLake
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The downfall of Melville started with Huey P. Long. He didn’t like the political support he got there so he had Hwy. 71 go from Lebeau to Krotz Springs and hit Hwy. 190. They built the bridge over the Atchafalaya in Krotz Spring even though it would have been a shorter route through Melville. Once the bridge was opened Melville started dying as a result of no one passing through there anymore.
Yep, this is what I’ve always heard from my relatives in Krotz Springs.
Posted on 7/25/23 at 7:48 pm to bayouteche
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You could see some shite at Sweet Peas. Used to be crew of Pardons roaming around over there. Called em the “barefoot Pardons!” They’d be up in the bar barefoot.
The nursing students from Eudora,AR liked to cut loose and have a good time.
Posted on 7/26/23 at 11:13 pm to Got Blaze
I’m friends with the Napoli’s, the Matte’s and a few more in that area!
Posted on 7/27/23 at 10:55 am to LSUballs
I'm wondering if we ever played against each other in the MPSA
What years did you play?
What years did you play?
Posted on 7/27/23 at 11:25 am to Jim Rockford
Got family from there. If you are white you are rich. If not, your most likely poor. Most families there have farm land that has ballooned in value. Effectively making them rich.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 11:48 am to IcedOutBart
Any of the Sevier family still there?
Posted on 7/27/23 at 12:25 pm to SFVtiger
Thank you. And to the others who replied. I’m not near her, but hope to one day go visit.
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