Sinclair , Moody presents the South through the eyes of Negro in the battle against Mississippi 's deep-rooted racist institutions and practices that remained largely unchallenged until the 1960s . While Sinclair again minimizes the cruelty against African American workers by simply saying that the ``scab ' who made the mistake of going into Packingtown ``fared badly (263 ) Moody emphasizes the harsh realities of life in the Deep South in the mid-twentieth century - in Arkansas and Mississippi , respectively . As the critic Roger Rosenblatt...











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