Danny Collins, a former minor league pitcher, took a closer look at the newspaper article featured in the background of Aldean’s promotional clip for the song.
, the text in the “Small Town” TikTok, which was posted May 19 , appears to have originated from a now-defunct newspaper from Petal, Mississippi, called The Petal Paper.
Collins claims to have found an archived copy of the 1956 article online. He stated that the text was a letter to the publication’s publisher, P.D. East, from an NAACP public relations consultant. The consultant commended East for using his platform to ridicule white supremacists and criticize the Jim Crow-era policy of segregation in schools.
TikToker Danny Collins zoomed in on the newspaper clippings included in Aldean’s TikTok for “Try That in a Small Town.”“Never have I seen anything that startled me as much as the March 15 issue of the Petal Paper with its incredible ridiculing of the White Citizens Council crowd. I’m referring specifically to the full-page ad I assume you wrote headed, ‘“I hope I am not congratulating a dead man. This must have taken courage and I hope you are still with us.
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