I realized my error right quick but was hoping nobody would notice! Thanks for the correction!
I caught it because when I was born, we lived about 40 miles from Eatonton, Harris’ home. I’ve been through Eatonton off and on for the past 70 plus years.
When I was a kid there were Negro/Colored families (the term “Black” was an insult and “African-American” had not been invented) living just down the road from us. This was before Brown v. Board of Education or the Civil Rights Amendment. They treated this little white boy much the same as the folks in Song of the South treated the white kids.
There WAS segregation and inequality, but there was civility.