You know Stetson Kennedy is still alive? That guy that attacked the KKK...

[JanMichael]

...is still KICKING!

http://www.stetsonkennedy.com/

Yeah, he's my man.

Hell even Woodie Guthrie thought he was worth a look...

Stetson Kennedy Lyrics

I done spent my last three cents
Mailing my letter to the president
I didn't make a show, I didn't make a dent
So I'm swinging over to this independent gent
Stetson Kennedy
Writing his name in

I cain't win out to save my soul
Long as Smathers-Dupont's got me in the hole
Them war profit boys are squawking and balking
That's what's got me out here walking and talking
Knocking on doors and windows
Wake up and run down election morning
And scribble in Stetson Kennedy

I ain't the world's best writer nor the world's best speller
But when I believe in something I'm the loudest yeller
If we fix it so's you can't make money on war
We'll all forget what we're killing folks for
We'll find us a peace job equal and free
Dump Smathers-Dupont in a salty sea
Well, this makes Stetson Kennedy the man for me

WORDS: Woody Guthrie (1950) - MUSIC: Billy Bragg (1997)

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

1. Ive got the Billy Bragg song.....

....Stetson Kennedy wrote a book on Florida politics...

Palmetto Country:

http://www.stetsonkennedy.com/palmetto.htm

Between 1937 and 1942 Stetson headed the Florida Writers Project unit on folklore, oral history, and social-ethnic studies for the Works Progress Administration, hauling around the state a sound recorder the size of a large coffee table to capture the songs, tales, and anecdotes of pogey fishermen at May port, railroad gandy-dancers, Latin cigarmakers, Greek spongers, and turpentiners. Among the results was what Stetson today calls,

"...A sort of barefoot social history of Florida",

Might be worth a read?

[JanMichael]

2. It's on my growing list of books to consume.

Up till hearing the Billy Bragg song I was ignorant of Stetson's work...