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New World grave

            Deeb Nosef is buried in a cemetery that borders on a neighborhood that in his day was called "the New World." You can see it over his left shoulder. The New World was Clarksdale, MS's honky-tonk and red-light district. W.C. Handy lived here, and as a historical marker points out, it was the only part of town where white, black and immigrant owned businesses sat side by side. 

From the Mississippi Blues Trail site....

This neighborhood, known since the turn of the twentieth century as the New World, was a breeding ground for ragtime, blues, and jazz music in Clarksdale's early days as a prosperous and adventurous new cotton town, when brothels here attracted both white and black clientele. Jews, Italians, Chinese, Syrians, and Greeks owned various local businesses, as did some African Americans who lived here.

The New World acquired its name from Nelson Jones, an African American who built a saloon with an upstairs rooming house on the south side of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad tracks, across from the site where the passenger depot was later built, according to H. L. Talbert, who arrived in Clarksdale in 1891. In 1948 Talbert recalled: ". . . he had a large sign erected on the front which read, Nelson Jones’ New World, and this part of Clarksdale has been known by that name all these years."

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