![]() ![]() ![]() Liebling’s The Earl of Louisiana: The Liberal Long (1961). Nor does the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, contain either Earl’s baggy stumping suit or a copy of A. Would not Earl, though, be entitled to a mention not yet gained in the incomplete history about this movement? ![]() Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, and Martin Luther King, Jr. He did not gain political maturity until 20 years- including those of the Great Depression and the Second World War-after Huey’s watershed election as governor, in 1928 when he was 34, ended a half-century of Louisiana’s domination by an oligarchy.ĭoes anybody beyond Louisiana remember the indomitable Earl Long, three-time governor and voting rights advocate dead 35 years this centennial year of his birth? In some inspired historian’s picture-perfect Annals of Civil Rights in the United States: The Slow Never-Ending Search for Human Dignity never to be written, Earl Long would rank far below Nat Turner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, W. Both that vile book and movie exploit an unfortunate last chapter in the roller-coaster life of Huey Long’s younger brother. ![]() The film was scripted in part from Blaze Starr: My Life as Told to Huey Perry (1974), a nightclub stripper’s ghosted autobiography styled a novel, but in the main from folklore. Some moviegoers will remember urbane Paul Newman miscast as the earthy and irascible Earl Long in Blaze (1989). ![]()
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