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Mayor Phillips. This chapter is not written to<br />
focus on the color of Myra’s skin but to<br />
bring out the fact that Mayor Phillip did not<br />
function in the office she was elected, Myra<br />
did. The entire town of Cotton Valley knew<br />
Myra was running the Town Hall. So, the<br />
whites (the select few) were not intimidated<br />
by a “black” woman being mayor, as long as<br />
she was not the one who usurps authority<br />
over them. Ask yourself this question: If<br />
Mayor Comerdis Phillips would have<br />
implemented more of her ideas instead of<br />
allowing Myra to call the shots, how would<br />
things have turned out for her? First of all,<br />
she wouldn’t have been elected a second<br />
term. I doubt very seriously if she would<br />
have made it through the first term. The<br />
same handful of racist citizens of Cotton<br />
Valley tried to initially remove Mayor
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