Quitman

QUITMAN - The Royal Cafe restaurant in Quitman was significantly damaged in a blaze Sunday night.

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He was born in a small town in Mississippi called Quitman (ph) and moved to New Orleans for a couple years and went to UCLA, tried to be an actor and did a little bit of acting, wrote some movies or screen plays with Truman Capote, did a movie called "The Chapman Report" and a couple others.

CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2006 2006

He was born in a small town in Mississippi called Quitman (ph) and moved to New Orleans for a couple years and went to UCLA, tried to be an actor and did a little bit of acting, wrote some movies or screen plays with Truman Capote, did a movie called "The Chapman Report" and a couple others.

CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2006 2006

He was born in a small town in Mississippi called Quitman (ph) and moved to New Orleans for a couple years and went to UCLA, tried to be an actor and did a little bit of acting, wrote some movies or screen plays with Truman Capote, did a movie called "The Chapman Report" and a couple others.

CNN Transcript Jun 4, 2006 2006

He was born in a small town in Mississippi called Quitman (ph) and moved to New Orleans for a couple years and went to UCLA, tried to be an actor and did a little bit of acting, wrote some movies or screen plays with Truman Capote, did a movie called "The Chapman Report" and a couple others.

CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2006 2006

The inadequacy of federal, state, and local support for poor children in Mississippi is underlined by this startling fact: The after-school tutoring and reading programs in Quitman and three other Delta counties are financed by what is essentially foreign aid, The Bernard van Leer Foundation of the Netherlands -- which focuses on children and families in what it refers to as oppressed societies.

Marian Wright Edelman: Revisiting Marks, Mississippi Marian Wright Edelman 2011

This alone reveals what has changed and what has not… The safety net set up in the 1960s and 1970s -- food stamps, school lunches and breakfasts, Medicaid, housing programs, Head Start -- has ameliorated some of the awful effects of poverty in Quitman County.

Marian Wright Edelman: Revisiting Marks, Mississippi Marian Wright Edelman 2011

The inadequacy of federal, state, and local support for poor children in Mississippi is underlined by this startling fact: The after-school tutoring and reading programs in Quitman and three other Delta counties are financed by what is essentially foreign aid, The Bernard van Leer Foundation of the Netherlands -- which focuses on children and families in what it refers to as oppressed societies.

Marian Wright Edelman: Revisiting Marks, Mississippi Marian Wright Edelman 2011

Cass describes the community Dr. King saw: Quitman was one of the poorest counties in America in 1960.

Marian Wright Edelman: Revisiting Marks, Mississippi Marian Wright Edelman 2011

Cass describes the community Dr. King saw: Quitman was one of the poorest counties in America in 1960.

Marian Wright Edelman: Revisiting Marks, Mississippi Marian Wright Edelman 2011